Miriam Smith - Writer/Producer/Director
Miriam Smith
co-created & produced the critically acclaimed and
award-winning feature documentaries THE GROUND WE WON & HOW FAR
IS HEAVEN. Both films had successful nationwide cinema releases in
New Zealand and screened at many celebrated film festivals around
the world, including Locarno Semaine de la Critique, Melbourne FF,
Warsaw FF, Big Sky and Full Frame Documentary Film
Festivals.
THE
GROUND WE WON was awarded Best Documentary & Best
Documentary Cinematography at the NZ Film Awards, the
Special Jury Prize at FIFO Tahiti, and the Best Sound award at the
Moscow International Documentary Festival. HOW FAR IS HEAVEN was
nominated for all of the documentary categories at the NZ Film
Awards and won Best Documentary Cinematography, as well as being
nominated for Best Documentary at the Asia Pacific Film
Awards.
Miriam
has written for literary journals, magazines, short film and
feature-length radio dramas for RNZ & BBC 4. Miriam is alumni
of the Binger Writers' Lab in Amsterdam and Script to Screen's
Aotearoa Writers' Lab. Miriam has a BA in English & Film
(Senior English Prize winner) and a Masters in Creative &
Performing Arts, majoring in screenwriting, from the University of
Auckland.
Miriam
and partner Chris Pryor were the recent recipients of the
prestigious Harriet Friedlander New York Residency. The pair are
co-directors of the independent film production company Deer Heart
Films, through which they're developing a slate of boldly original
drama and documentary films.
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