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Patrick N Smith
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Patrick N Smith
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Breaking Ground with Dylan Sprouse & Barbara Palvin

Meta

When the former Disney actor and his model girlfriend needed a showrunner for their Instagram series, they called me. After 20 episodes and 100 million views we struck a development deal with Discovery for a primetime version.

Momentum: A Day in the Life of Anders Holm

Rolling Stone/Dannon Yogurt

Rolling Stone’s Creative Advertising team paired me with Anders Holm of Workaholics fame for a mockumentary designed to sell yogurt. The client was so pleased they extended the series.

Dos De Mayo

Comedy Central/Dos Equis

Comedy Central’s integrated marketing team wanted to give their co-branded advertising a new look and feel, so they brought me in to produce and direct, resulting in this successful spot.

Documentary - short form

The Warriors – Last Subway Ride Home

Rolling Stone

Patrick turned his passion for this cult film into a global viral hit. Easily one of Rolling Stone’s most popular videos, it put the cult film back in the cultural zeitgeist and reignited remake discussions with the Russo Brothers.

The Thurgood Marshall Award - Geoffrey Canada

BET/NAACP

Writing, producing and directing this multi-part documentary series, which profiled recipients of the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Award, was a rewarding accomplishment. The project was so well received that BET submitted it for awards of its own.

Shaping the Culture: 1973

Rolling Stone/HBO

When HBO needed a primer to introduce their audience to the period their new show VINYL takes place in, I pitched a documentary on the year 1973. With notes coming in from producers Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, this was a career highlight and a fever dream all in one. The popularity of the project led us to sell other “years” to other networks with period-based shows.

Podcasts & Misc

American Genocide - Podcast

Sunshine Sachs/Illuminative

I embeded on the Oglala Lakota Indian Reservation with the intention of creating an archive of interviews with the locals on the eve of the government’s excavation of a Catholic school believed to be hiding multiple dead bodies. But my lightbulb moment to turn the interviews into a podcast transformed the material into a multi-award-winning series that forced the school to change its name and apologize.

Wonderwerk - Podcast

Heavy Metal Magazine

To help HM Magazine increase its intellectual property generation, I co-created an anthology series featuring renowned genre writers like George Romero Jr. and Dan Fogler and Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman.

Sun Eater - Graphic Novel

Heavy Metal Magazine

I teamed with writer Dylan Sprouse to help develop and publish a graphic novel series that served as a metaphor for Dylan’s turbulent life as a child actor. The books were a hit and led to an animated series development deal with Crunchyroll.

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