Tracy D. Smith is a writer/director/artist whose film credits include the feature film Everything and Everyone (which screened at the 2011 Seattle Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Women in Film Festival BC where she won best director and best picture) and Taming Tammy (her debut feature film which screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2007 and received a nomination for the CityTV Western Canada Feature Film Award).
Her first short film, Sandra Gets Dumped, part of the 2005 Crazy8s Film Competition, won Leo Awards for best screenwriting and best female performance in a short drama.
She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia in 2002. Her thesis and focus of study was Children’s Literature and Young Adult Fiction. After graduation, Tracy received several opportunities in the film industry and after directing two features and 50 short films (and having a baby), she returned to her first passion and has started writing for children again.
In addition, Tracy has taken up watercolor painting again. She had great success as a young artist and has finally found the time to focus on her art again. Landscapes of the Okanagan Valley where she grew up are her inspiration. She is planning her first showing of her current paintings for the near future and will also be illustrating her upcoming children’s books.