D Smith Filmmaker

Filmmaker D Smith burst onto the scene with her debut documentary feature Kokomo City which premiered at Sundance and was acquired & distributed by Magnolia Pictures earlier this year. D won the Audience Award in the NEXT section of the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Adobe’s Innovator Prize. She also won the Audience Award in the Panorama Documentary section at the Berlin Film Festival. Smith is a two-time Grammy Award-nominated record producer, singer and songwriter who produced and is featured on “Shoot Me Down” from Lil Wayne’s 8x platinum album Tha Carter III. She also wrote and produced the #1 Billboard dance single “Love Yourself” by Billy Porter and made history with VH1’s Love & Hip Hop, as the first trans woman cast on a primetime unscripted series.