THOMAS SMITH
Writer/Director/Producer
Thomas Smith founded Fighting Owl Films, a production company that specializes in genre films, in 2007.  Smith is quickly making a name for himself as an ambitious filmmaker who is not only a talented director, but a gifted writer.  His screenplay, "'Till Death", was a finalist in the 2007 Birmingham Film Festival Sidewrite Competition.  In 2008, his zero-budget short, "Shadows", placed second in the first round of the Master of the Macabre competition, and throughout 2009 the short films “The Strange Experiment of Doctor Purefoy” and “The Night Shift” screened at several festivals across the country.  Inspired by the amount of positive feedback and support “The Night Shift” received and a general disillusionment with Hollywood’s current output of remakes and reboots, Thomas decided to expand the concept into a feature film.  He believes the feature delivers everything audiences loved about the short while adding more adventure, more laughs and a greater exploration of the world Rue Morgan inhabits.