Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith is a multi-award-winning director from Scotland. Her zoology degree sent her to faraway lands like the Amazon rainforest, Red Sea and Madagascar. In 2014, she joined the BBC and set off around Europe and the USA, making primetime science documentaries for worldwide broadcast. Since moving to New Zealand in 2018, she has directed documentaries for all the major platforms, including music series ‘The Collective’ (2021) (Award of Merit at IndieFest and finalist at NZ Web Fest); debut feature documentary ‘TE ARA the the’ (2023) (Special Jury Award and the People's Choice Award at New Zealand Mountain Film Festival, Best Adventure Short at Boulder International Film Festival, Award of Excellence at Impact Doc Awards and Finalist at Banff Mountain Film Festival) and award-winning returning primetime docuseries ‘Unbreakable’ (2024) for TVNZ 1. Having travelled most of Earth through her work, she’s now setting her sights on other planets.
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Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith is a multi-award-winning director from Scotland. Her zoology degree sent her to faraway lands like the Amazon rainforest, Red Sea and Madagascar. In 2014, she joined the BBC and set off around Europe and the USA, making primetime science documentaries for worldwide broadcast. Since moving to New Zealand in 2018, she has directed documentaries for all the major platforms, including music series ‘The Collective’ (2021) (Award of Merit at IndieFest and finalist at NZ Web Fest); debut feature documentary ‘TE ARA the the’ (2023) (Special Jury Award and the People's Choice Award at New Zealand Mountain Film Festival, Best Adventure Short at Boulder International Film Festival, Award of Excellence at Impact Doc Awards and Finalist at Banff Mountain Film Festival) and award-winning returning primetime docuseries ‘Unbreakable’ (2024) for TVNZ 1. Having travelled most of Earth through her work, she’s now setting her sights on other planets.
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