Documentary director and coach

Geoffrey Smith is a double Emmy award winning director who was at the BBC in London for over 13 years. He has made over 25 films for all the major UK broadcasters, won over 40 International awards, was listed in the 2009 NY Times Best Films list for the “The English Surgeon”, and his last two feature documentaries have sold widely, had theatrical releases and screened at hundreds of film festivals across the world.  

Geoffrey has several feature documentaries in development and one in production, and is also in demand as a consultant and story editor on a wide range of projects.  In love with cinema from an early age, he is passionate about getting documentaries out into the wider community and for the last 5 years has curated and run the Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival in Australia.