Nigel Smith

Has worked as producer, series producer, executive producer, development executive, screenwriter, script editor and story analyst in both public and private sectors in and beyond the UK (BBC, Scottish Screen, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Forged Films, Majestic FilmVerleih), allowing him experience of a variety of screen narrative development practices across a range of film and television genres and perspective on the varied activities of project producers and screenwriters.

 

Nigel is currently on staff at Edinburgh Napier University/Screen Academy Scotland where he is Programme Leader of the MA Screenwriting and lectures on the Kino Eyes European Movie Masters and MA Film programmes.

 

As Producer, his credits include the internationally distributed sci-fi adventure sitcom series ‘Intergalactic Kitchen’ (BBC1) and multi-award-winning short films ‘Cry For Bobo’ (BBC1 Tartan Short) and ‘The Return Of Peg Leg Pete’ (Fox Searchlight). His experiences successfully distributing a number of award-winning short films led to him being commissioned by Scottish Screen to write ‘You’ve Got It Made’, a handy short film distribution guide.

 

He is currently helping Estonian production house Allfilm to develop ‘The Deep’ a thriller series for international television markets and has worked for German company Majestic FilmVerleih with Oscar-winning writer/director Florian Gallenberger on an English language polish of feature thriller screenplay ‘Colonia Dignidad’. 

Find out more at Edinburgh Napier University