Pamela Jaye Smith

Producer, Production Consultant and Writer

 

Pamela is an award-winning Producer/Director, an Author, Consultant, and Speaker with over thirty years experience in features, TV, music videos, commercials, documentaries, corporate, and military films. She has worked at major Hollywood studios (including four years at Universal), for major corporations, and with wildly independent companies, always enjoying the process of bringing creative ideas to the screen.

Smith is the author of INNER DRIVES: How to Write and Create Characters Using the Eight Classic Centers of Motivation and THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE: Creating Great Villains and Dangerous Situations, and SYMBOLS.IMAGES.CODES: The Secret Language of Meaning in Media [Aug 2010], all published by preeminent filmbook publisher Michael Wiese Productions.

She has appeared on national TV and radio programs as a mythology expert, including on the "Forbidden Secrets" TV series. She was the on-camera spokesperson for Microsoft's "Age of Mythology" computer game.

As a member of the U.S. Army's Advanced Warfighting Working Group in the 1990's Pamela presented lectures and papers on the Warrior Spirit, Ethics and Leadership. She is a member of the Boeing Space & Communications Workforce Development think tank, promoting a full community approach to getting more young people into science and technology.

Currently Pamela is producing a feature documentary on Car Club Culture in Los Angeles.

Clients and credits include Microsoft, Disney, Paramount, Columbia-Sony, Universal, RAI-TV Rome, UCLA, USC Film School, American Film Institute, Thot Fiction Marseille France, Natl. Film Institute of Denmark, Pepperdine University, Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters, and various film festivals and story conferences. Others include the American Assoc. of University Women, Junior ROTC, General Motors, Boeing, Hyundai, Hughes Space & Communications, the FBI, and the U.S. Army.

Various projects have taken Smith to the Arctic, the Andes, SE Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. She has filmed on the largest off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, slept in grass huts and eaten guinea pig under Ecuador’s highest volcano, caught her own sushi in the Leyte Gulf, and rappelled into the jungles of Mindanao searching for lost WWII Japanese gold.

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Pamela majored in English and Latin with secondary studies in Film. She also studied music at North Texas State University in Denton.

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