Discipline: Film/Video – feature

Becky Smith

Discipline: Film/Video – feature
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012

Becky Smith is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker. She is currently in post production on the feature Berlin. Smith's most recent feature 16 to Life is distributed by Warner Brothers Digital and available to over 80 million television subscribers as well as on Netlfix, Amazon, Hulu, and many other platforms. Smith directed Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which received a Prime Time Emmy and a directing nomination the year Smith directed the show. She has directed for numerous networks, including NBC, ABC Family, PBS, BRAVO, History Channel, Fuse, and other cable networks.

Portrait by Steve Smith

Studios

Star

Becky Smith worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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