The Smith Brothers

Adam Smith is a Montana-born director & producer. He worked in procurement, logistics, and tech before turning to filmmaking. Adam worked in production at BYUtv before going out on his own in the documentary space with the humanitarian-focused productions The Grave is Wide and Paradise Lost. He transitioned into the fictional world and has received numerous awards & grants for his films. He works closely in partnership with his brother Zander, with whom he grew up herding cattle and bucking bales. When he’s not making films or planning to make films, Smith likes being outdoors – skiing, hiking, canyoneering, swimming & mountain biking.

Zander Smith was born & raised on a ranch in Western Montana. An avid outdoorsman, he earned his Eagle Scout designation before attending BYU, where he studied English & Classical Literature. As an undergraduate, his writing was published in the BYU Humanities Magazine. Later, he graduated from the University of Montana School of Law while simultaneously writing scripts that garnered over $200,000 in federal & private funding. He currently writes part-time while overseeing the Public Relations Department at the Tamarack Resort in Idaho.

A man in business attire standing outdoors in a field with mountains in the background during sunset.
A man with a beard and short hair standing on a beach, wearing a black turtleneck and a brown leather jacket, with a blurred background of trees and cloudy sky.

“The artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted by another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite… the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to reate an illusion of the infinite: the image.”

Andrei Tarkovsky