Scott Marshall Smith

Scott Marshall Smith is a writer and director born in Monterey, CA and raised in the Midwest. Shortly following receipt of his BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he began his career in entertainment working for storied commercial and music video director, Bob Giraldi.Smith spent four years learning production on Manhattan's mean streets before leaving Geraldi Productions to pursue his writing career in Los Angeles. In LA, Smith joined the corporate side of the movie business as a founding executive for the then start up camera rental house, Panavision Hollywood. Eventually, he rose to Director of Marketing. Smith's experience at PVH rewarded him with an invaluable grasp of cinematography as he supplied cameras to many now legendary film-makers such as Academy Award winners Quentin Tarantino and Emmanuel Lubezki. After five years at PVH, Smith's screenwriting career began to grow.Hired at Paramount to write "Men of Honor" and by Disney to draft an action thriller for director Tony Scott, Smith left corporate life to begin writing full time. In the ensuing years, he has enjoyed the rare privilege of earning sole credit on two of his produced features while either selling or performing assignment work on over forty screenplays for every major studio -- Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Universal, Warner Bros., Sony, Disney and Miramax.Smith has worked with numerous Oscar nominees and winners such as Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Charlize Theron, Cuba Gooding Jr., Hal Holbrook and Laura Dern.Able to work in a variety of genres, Smith has written small, intimate films as well as big budget tent poles in excess of 90 million dollars.Smith's long time passion project, Camera Store, was written by Smith yet also marks the scribe's producing and directorial debut. Set to be released theatrically in East Coast markets only on December 9, 2016, Camera Store will officially premiere at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January of 2017. Ultimately, the movie will be distributed by Netflix. Show less «