Dawn Smith is a writer and producer residing in Boston, Massachusetts, by way of Los Angeles and Chicago. She received her B.A. from University of California Irvine, was involved in a summer intensive at USC Film School and interned at Media Process Group. She was a winner of the USC Student Film Festival for her short film "Isolation." Her screenplay “The Weasel Men” landed her in the top 15% of the Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting competition in 2010. Her screenplay, "The Light Fantastic" was a second rounder finalist at the Austin Film Festival in 2016.
In Chicago, Dawn was an associate producer at AKPD Message and Media, previously known as Axelrod & Associates, and worked on political candidate and issue ads. Since relocating to Boston she has been working as a freelance producer and writer, most recently field producer for Bernie Sanders' campaign commercials. After the 2016 election season, Dawn wrote, directed, and co-produced a comedy web series about political commercial production called PAID FOR BY, which is currently in the festival circuit.
"Paid for By" explores the lives of the good people that produce the worst ads on television - political commercials.
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