Philip Smith is an award-winning director with wide-ranging experience from documentary films to factual drama. He is skilled at crafting strong human narratives and has made films in the worlds of music, sport, arts, science, history and travel. His work has received critical acclaim for its powerful storytelling and innovative visual style. He is currently developing two feature-length documentaries.
He directed two authored films in the Sports Emmy nominated (Outstanding Music Direction) Amazon Original documentary event series This is Football. The series explores the emotions, stories, passions and triumphs at the heart of the world’s most loved sport. It launched on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
Previous work also includes: a film for Sky Arts with a unique take on the solo music of The Beatles; the BBC drama-documentary Frankenstein and The Vampyre (narrated by Claire Foy); a documentary with the artist Damien Hirst; Superfly, a highly individual retelling of a century of genetics that received a Royal Television Society Award; two films in the BAFTA and RTS award-winning series This is Modern Art; a film in the BAFTA and RTS nominated BBC series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World; a 3D short and the opening film in the digital Emmy and new media BAFTA winning BBC production The Virtual Revolution. He was also a director on the C4/Showtime George Michael feature-length documentary Freedom. IMDb
