USA

Smith is the president of Vital Pictures, Inc. As a writer/producer, he has contributed to several PBS series as series editor for the PBS history series American Experience. He played a key role in the origination, development, and acquisition of more than 70 programs on American history. Smith was project director for the Peabody and Emmy award-winning series Africans In America: America’s Journey Through Slavery. He directed the final film in the series Judgment Day. Smith was Senior Producer for Eye on Education, a WGBH-Boston Globe multimedia look at state education reform. For the PBS series RACE: The Power Of An Illusion, Smith produced the episode The House We Live In. Smith was a producer/director for the three-hour special Reconstruction: The Second Civil War. He was also producer/director for Forgotten Genius, the NOVA biography of Dr. Percy Julian, the pioneering industrial chemist and civil rights activist. Forgotten Genius was honored for broadcast excellence by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Smith was also co-executive producer for the PBS series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Filmography

Africans in America: Judgment Day (2003)
Race: The Power of an Illusion: The House We Live In (2003)
Adrift: Lost on the Road of Expectations (2003)
Forgotten Genius (2007)
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)
Gaining Ground: Building Community on Dudley Street (2012)
Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Secret Soldier of the American Civil War (2013)
The Raising of America: Wounded Places (2015)
American Denial (2015)
Poisoned Water (2017)