Client details
Laura Smith
Director/Writer
Agent
| Michelle Archer |
About
Laura’s features in development include: The Girl in the Corn (European MEDIA Fund), an adaptation of Graham Joyce's award winning novel- Do The Creepy Thing, (UK Film Council), Desert Song (BBC Films) and Starless Nights of Travel (UK Film Council). She studied Fiction Directing at the National Film and Television School, where she directed the award-winning Eva, received a UK Film Council commission, Birth Day, and began developing the features The White Street and The Night Shift (writer/director). Prior to this she made five short films, commissioned by key UK financiers including Channel 4 and UK Film Council. They have screened at cinemas and festivals worldwide and on television in the UK, US, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Norway |
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| GIRL IN THE CORN | European Media Fund/ Screen West Midlands/ Future Films | Feature Film. Director. Writer: Justin Hopper. Producer: Carola Ash Developed under the "Passion to Market" Scheme. Aisling Loftus attached to star. |
| DO THE CREEPY THING | UK Film Council/ BFI/ EM Media | Feature Film. Director. Writer: Graham Joyce, adapting his award-winning novel. Producer: Madonna Baptiste. |
| DESERT SONG | BBC Films/ Borderland Productions | Feature Film Director/Writer Recipient of a BBC Films/ NFTS development award |
| STARLESS NIGHTS OF TRAVEL | UK Film Council/ BFI/ Jeva Films | Feature Film Director / Story Writer: Suhayla El-Bushra Producer: Cassandra Sigsgaard |
Television
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| HOLLYOAKS (2012) | Lime Pictures/ C4 | Producer: Emma Smithwick Executive Producer: Tony Wood |
| THE CUT SERIES 1-3 (2010-11) | BBC2 / BBC Switch | 8 x 30 min Returning director on all three series. Executive Producer: Geoffrey Goodwin. |
| HOLLYOAKS (2008/09) | Lime Pictures/ C4 | 10 x 30 min Returning director. Executive Producer: Tony Wood |
| DOCTORS (2007) | BBC 1 | 2 x 30 min Executive Producer: Mike Hobson |
Short Films
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| THE GIRL IN THE CORN | European Media Fund | Director. Feature Film Promo starring Aisling Loftus |
| EVA | National Film and Television School/ British Council | Director/Writer, HD / 35mm 19 min. Winner: Best Foreign Film, Long Island International Film Expo. Screened at over twenty cinemas and festivals including: Edinburgh International FF, London FF, Long Island International Film Expo, Foyle FF (Ireland), Lucania FF (Italy), Halloween FF, Hull FF. Cinema: Best of Edinburgh FF, Curzon Soho, Future Shorts: various venues in England and Hungary. |
| BIRTH DAY | UK Film Council/ EMMI | Director/Writer Producer: Rachel Robey DV / Digi-beta, 11min. Festivals: Skip City- International Digital Cinema Festival, (Japan), Halloween Short FF, (ICA. London), Exposures (Manchester). Cinema: NFT, in front of ‘Keltoum’s Daughter’, Curzon Soho, Serious About Shorts, (both London) The Screen Room, Nottingham: with ‘The Mother’ and Ae Fond Kiss’ TV: The Education Channel, USA. |
| JUST LIKE MY DAD | UK Film Council/ EMMI | Director/Writer. Executive Producer: Peter Carlton S16 / 35mm, 13 min. Turner Classic Shorts Award: Highly Commended. Southend Short FF: Best Film. Festivals: London International FF, Kino FF, Halloween Short FF, Southend FF, (UK) Cinema Tout Ecran, (Switzland), Padua FF (Italy). Cinema: Serious About Shorts, (Curzon Soho), UK screenings with ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’, (UCI Greenwich) ‘The Last Resort’ (Broadway, Nottingham) and ‘Code Unknown’ (Leicester Phoenix, Derby Metro). |
| KING OF THE ROAD | Channel 4/ British Film Institute | Director/ Writer. Producer: Caroline Cooper-Charles, Series Producer: Peter Carlton DV / 35mm, 11 min. TV: Channel 4. Cinema: UK tour as part of The Deal anthology – National Film Theatre, (London) and RFT’s in Nottingham, Newcastle, Sheffield, Cardiff, Leicester, York Festivals: Brief Encounters, Roadshow, Halloween (UK), Dresden (Germany), To be Seen to be Believed (WFTV Showcase). |
| THE SAFE HOUSE | Emare | Director/Writer. 16mm, 11 min. Made during a three-month residency at the Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Germany under the EMARE scheme. Cinemas and Festivals: Washington FF USA, Hull FF (UK). Tour of Germany, Hungary, Russia as part of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft collection. |
| GRANDADS NOT IN HEAVEN, HE'S IN THE KITCHEN | Lifesize Pictures/ Borderland Productions | Director/ Co-writer, Producer: Caroline Cooper-Charles 16mm, 11min. Screened in regional film theatres as part of the First Cut series of New Directors |
Other
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| BRITNEY'S REDNECK ROOTS | Channel 4 | 1 x 40 min, 1 x 20 min promo |
| SHAKER | The Arts Council | Director/ Co-Writer. DV / Digi-beta, 3 min. Collaboration with choreographer Peter Shenton, one of 8 x 3′ series commissioned for ‘Year of the Artist’. Festivals: Kino, DIGM, X-Trax, Motion Pictures, Dance on Screen, Dance Film Forum, Arnolfini, Chichester FF, Halloween (All UK). Berne FF (Switzerland), TTV and Trieste FF (Italy), Ultima (Norway). Cinema: UK RFT’s, part of ‘DV Miniatures’ series. |
| MARTHA'S WHITER WASH | Borderland Productions | Producer Executive Producer: Peter Carlton Animation, 16mm, 5 min. TV: Carlton TV, NRK, (Norway) WTN, (Canada), Iberian Programming (Spain and Portugal). Cinema: New Zealand: nationwide tour, supporting ‘Onegin’ at the UK Rover Film Series, UK: supporting ‘The Royal Tenanbaums’. (Curzon Soho, Croydon Clocktower). Festivals: Brief Encounters, Halloween, Hull, Can2003 (all UK), Austin FF (USA), Minsk FF, Koln Short FF, Dresden Short FF, Sydney FF, Rio de Janeiro FF. |
