Texas Smith (they/he) is a sometimes Chicago-based, award-winning Arkansas filmmaker. A proud member of the IFA Chicago, the Arkansas Cinema Society, and DePaul MFA candidate whose films have screened across the US – including Academy-Award Qualifying festivals like Seattle International Film Festival, Chicago International, Doc NYC – and on esteemed music publications like Pitchfork, Grammy.com, and more. In 2022, they were awarded an inaugural CXF artist grant from The Medium by CACHE, and most recently, they were invited by the Baltic Analog Lab to participate in their 2023 cohort and to attend the Telluride Student Symposium.
“Everything I’ve made – it doesn’t mean they’ve all been good – but everything I’ve made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I’ve been really enthusiastic about.” -Jonathan Demme