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Francis Smith
Executive Producer
About Me
English-Vietnamese with a MA in Classical Arabic, Frank started as a BBC documentary filmmaker specializing in conflict zones across the world before founding IFA. A multi-award winning director, writer and producer, Frank’s work includes the Royal TV Society nominee The Killer Wave for the BBC, Dowry Cops, nominee for Amnesty’s Doc of ...
Read MoreEnglish-Vietnamese with a MA in Classical Arabic, Frank started as a BBC documentary filmmaker specializing in conflict zones across the world before founding IFA. A multi-award winning director, writer and producer, Frank’s work includes the Royal TV Society nominee The Killer Wave for the BBC, Dowry Cops, nominee for Amnesty’s Doc of the year 2004, director of Peabody winner A Year in The Clouds and DOP on License to Kill, winner of the Royal TV Society Doc of the year 2000. Frank exec. produced the Golden Bell award-winning dramas The Teenage Psychic for HBO Asia and 2019’s Netflix’s Nowhere Man. In 2022 Frank was the creator of Thai drama series Forbidden for HBO Asia, which was part of Busan Film Festival’s new On-Screen selection. In 2024, Frank is overseeing IFA’s new feature slate, the first of which is Operation Undead, a horror set in WW2 Thailand.
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