Niki Smart

iMay Productions
Author, Screenwriter, Songwriter, Producer and Marketing/pr

Cascais, Portugal

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November 2018

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About Niki

I grew up in Johannesburg, lived in Los Angeles for a few years, recently worked in London (on a VR project) and am currently in Portugal. I'm the Managing Editor for SoCal Magazine and my writings have been published in More Magazine, Laguna Beach Independent, Aspen Times, LA Fashion Magazine, StuNews, and SoCal Magazine. My first memoir, Hell Camp, won 2x eLit awards, a chance to read at the LA Times Festival of books, and the Book Trailer won the 2017 Global Trailer Film Festival. Hell Camp is in development for the big screen (see IMDB link below for more info). My second memoir, Helter Shelter is out now (and I’m working on a third). I co-produced 4 x shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and will be there again this year (2023) working for a PR company. I’m also a musician with three CDs released and my music has been used in radio/TV commercials, TV shows and movies. Creativity makes me high on life - woohoo!

Unique traits: I can bend time. Okay, maybe not, but it would be cool if I could, right?

Gender:
Female

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Hell Camp (0000 - 2023)
Film by FIlm Afrika/Catherine Cooke (Drama) Writer/producer In development with Film Afrika
Connected (0000 - 2020)
Film (short) by Ruby Rocket Media/ Bronwyn Berry Writer
Helter Shelter (2020)
Print Writer Memoir about having a deep crisis while working at a crisis intervention shelter for teenagers
Hell Camp (2013)
Print Writer A memoir about growing up with a mentally unstable mother during the volatile end-of-apartheid era in South Africa
The Water's Edge (2012)
Film Composer
The Heartbreak Cafe (1997)
Film Composer

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Awards

Winner - Best Short Script Phoenix Film Festival (Connected - short film)
(2021)
Winer - Best Women Empowerment Award - Paris International Short Film Festival
(2021)
Semi-finalist Stockholm City Film Festival for Connected (short film)
(2020)
Semi-finalist - LA CInefest for Magical Ride (screenplay)
(2018)
Global Trailer Film Festival (trailer for Hell Camp memoir)
(2017)
2 x eLit Award (Bronze and Gold) for memoir Hell Camp
(2013)