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Director

Kevin Smith

Bio

KEVIN SMITH (Director/Writer/Editor) made his first film, CLERKS, for $27,575, in New Jersey back in 1994. Since then, the 38-year-old screenwriter/director/actor has made CLERKS, CLERKS II, MALLRATS, CHASING AMY, JERSEY GIRL, JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK and DOGMA. He is currently preparing a horror film, entitled RED STATE, and an untitled comic book/sci-fi movie. Smith is also a comic book writer, having written eight issues of “Daredevil” for Marvel Comics, as well as 15-issues of “Green Arrow,” for DC Comics, amongst others. He’s released two lecture tour DVDs entitled AN EVENING WITH KEVIN SMITH and remains very active with his multiple Internet sites. Last year he also released a memoir/diary, entitled “My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith.”

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.