ABOUT
SUSAN SMILEY


PRAISE FOR
OUT OF THE SHADOW


CREDITS

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MS. SMILEY'S
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An award-winning documentary filmmaker,
Susan Smiley is the producer, director and writer
of Out of the Shadow.

Through her Los Angeles based production
company, Vine Street Pictures, Susan produces
documentary projects and video productions for
non-profit organizations, corporations and television.  
Susan has also worked extensively as a television
producer, having directed and produced programs for
Discovery Channel, History Channel, Sci Fi Channel,
and MTV, in which she often explored the lives of everyday risk takers, from
intrepid truck drivers who take their big rigs over frozen lakes in the arctic
(Ice Road Truckers) to daring engineers who locate and destroy land mines
across Bosnia (Minesweepers). She was Co-Producer of the PBS FRONTLINE
documentary The Monster That Ate Hollywood, about how the vertical integration
of the movie industry has changed the landscape and quality of films that
are being produced.