Cole Smith is a screenwriter and director. He is an Air Force veteran and worked for five years as a nuclear missile officer in underground silos across the American West. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and received his M.F.A. in Screenwriting at Columbia University.

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Cole Smith is a co-founder and filmmaker at APAC Pictures, a full-service boutique production company comprised of like-minded artists that seek to tell huge stories. With APAC Pictures, she performs, writes, directs, and produces films, commercials, music videos, and a weekly sketch comedy web series called "Meanwhile..."

Cole is the recipient of the 2021 Sloan Screenplay award for his feature script Damascus, which tells the true story of a 1980 Titan Nuclear Missile explosion. He is also an award winning director. His latest animated short film, Bird Poop Fish, stars Kathleen Turner and is a 2022 CUFF select.

Jun 20, 2022 · From 2012 to 2017, I worked as a nuclear missile operator in the US Air Force. Today, much of my work as a screenwriter is aimed at restarting a conversation about nuclear weapons in a world that has largely forgotten about them.

Likely the only filmmaker you'll meet who knows how to launch a nuke. Cole Smith is a writer, director, and cinematographer from Charlotte, NC. He is a 2012 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy where he received a B.S. with a degree in English Literature.

Cole Smith is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was born in Tasmania and moved to Melbourne in 2017 to attend film school where he graduated at RMIT and Swinburne University of Technology.