Brian TrenchardSmith is an Anglo Australian film and television director producer and writer with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets many of which display a quirky sense of humor that has earned him a cult following Quentin Tarantino referred to him in Entertainment Weekly as one of his favorite directors His early work is featured in Not Quite Hollywood an award winning documentary released by Magnolia Among his early successes were the 20th Century Fox release The Man from Hong Kong a wry James BondChop Sockey cocktail the Vietnam battle movie Siege of Firebase Gloria and the futuristic satire Dead End DriveIn a particular Tarantino favorite BMX Bandits showcasing a 15year old Nicole Kidman and Miramaxs The Quest starring ETs Henry Thomas won prizes at childrens film festivals in Montreal and Europe He has also directed 35 episodes of television series as diverse as Silk Stalkings Time Trax The Others and Flipper Born in England where his Australian father was in the RAF TrenchardSmith attended UKs prestigious Wellington College where he neglected studies in favor of acting and making short films before migrating to Australia He started as a news film editor then graduated to network promos before he became one of a group of young people that as he recalls pushed shoved lobbied and bullied the government into introducing investment for Australian made films He persuaded Australias largest distributionexhibition circuit at the time the Greater Union Theater Organization to form an inhouse production company that he would run The company made three successful films in a row and his career was underway In parallel careers he was also founding editor of Australias quarterly Movie magazine for 6 years and has made over 100 trailers for other directors in Australia Europe and America Among his 39 movies 5 were commissioned by Showtime including the remake of the World War II classic Sahara the highly rated Happy Face Murders starring AnnMargret and DC 911 Time of Crisis with Timothy Bottoms as President Bush His frequently repeated family drama for Lifetime Long Lost Son starring Gabrielle Anwar introduced future Gossip Girls Chace Crawford to audiences in the title role I knew from his first scene he was going to be hot In 2009 TrenchardSmith shot Porkys The College Years a reimagining of the famous 80s franchise of teen comedies His recent ecological thriller Arctic Blast starring Michael Shanks was chosen to premiere at the 2010 Possible Worlds Canadian Film Festival in Sydney TrenchardSmith writes for filmindustrybloggerscom as The Genre Director and is a contributing guru to trailersfromhellcom He is married to Byzantine historian Dr Margaret TrenchardSmith lives in Los Angeles and is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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