Production and training specialist with Ph.D./ Documentary Film Studies, MS/Television/Film/Radio and 10+ years of experience at increasing levels of technical involvement, creative output, and student impact; emphasis on the application of computer-based, non-linear video/film editing systems and software.

• Skilled in researching, designing and presenting customer/student training in group sessions, and the creation of user-friendly manuals and support materials.
• Proficient at manipulating recorded images via new technologies, including award-winning production and professional user training.
• Personally produced over 10 films, ranging from traditional to those incorporating computer-generated images and graphics (1983-2008).
• Strong writing and research background, particularly in documentary, anthropology and new technologies.
• Fluent in English and French (oral and written), rudimentary Spanish. Lived, published and worked in broadcast media in France.

Experienced in on-line, off-line editing, including:

• Media 100 post-production system for Macintosh, Final Cut Pro.
• Macintosh multimedia: Adobe PhotoShop, Premiere and Sound Edit Pro.
• Digital video production (dv, minidv, dvcam, and hi-def).
• 16 mm and super 8 mm film (single and double), 3/4" and hi-8 videotape.

Video Production Trainer
BUFFALO CABLE ACCESS MEDIA, Buffalo, NY 1992-1993

• Produced cable access television shows.
• Trained professional community in all phases of production.

Freelance Video Editor and Video Technician
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM,
and WTN NEWS/ABC, New York, NY 1990-1991

• Applied foreign language and technical skills in post-production editing UNDP annual report.
• Received, recorded and edited satellite feeds for news service.

Visiting Faculty: Documentary Production-Film 1
CDIA (Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University), Washington, DC, 2008.

• Created and instructed module in Documentary Camera and the Interview in February and July 2008.
• Lectures and hands-on in an intensive workshop environment with related topics in production and editing techniques.

Adjunct Faculty: Digital Media II, Ethnographic Film
ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT
SUNY BROCKPORT, Rochester, NY 2007-present

• Organized and created lecture/screening class incorporating theoretical, historical, technical and ethical issues related to this type of filmmaking.
• Teaches Digital Media II in the Art Department during the semester and Documentary Film workshops in the summer. 

Adjunct Faculty: Digital Video and Audio Production
ART AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
NAZARETH COLLEGE, Rochester, NY 2002-2006

• Planned and implemented structured computer lab training.
• Created and taught program in Digital Video Production, using Final Cut Pro.

Adjunct Faculty: Women and Film, Documentary Topics
COMMUNICATION AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE, Rochester, NY 2000, 2002

• Asked to do class after presentation on women and film.
• Combined production with theoretical and historical aspects of women's autobiographical work.

Adjunct Faculty: Digital Video and Audio
VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT
MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Rochester, NY -1998

• Planned and implemented structured computer lab training.
• Created and taught program in Digital Video Production, using Adobe Premiere and Sound Edit 16 software.

Trainer: Film & Video Editing (Media 100)
NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, NY -1995

• Trained and provided user support to faculty and university students on new Media 100 editing system.
• Planned and implemented structure computer lab training.
• Planned manual for graduate and undergraduate students.

Teaching Assistant: Film and Video Production
NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, NY 1993-1994

• Created and taught program in Film and Video Production, using Amiga computer graphics.
• Produced user-friendly manual and coordinated, supporting material for undergraduate and graduate students.

Teaching Assistant: Documentary Video Production
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO,
Buffalo, NY 1991-1993

• Taught production including historical, creative, theoretical and technical facets of this genre.
• Critiqued and analyzed contemporary productions.
• Formulated syllabus, bibliography, screenings and exams.

Visiting Instructor: Film Production
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,
Rochester, NY 1987-1988

• Researched, designed, and taught Film Production, including history, theory and criticism. Designed syllabus, which is still in use.
• Invited international specialists to speak on lighting, documentary, independent and commercial production.

• Produced films/videos from concept to distribution, including film currently in circulation in Europe and shown at Cannes Film Market and the Cinema du Reel in France. For complete list, see below.
• Designed and taught video and documentary workshops for teachers sponsored by the Aesthetic Education Institute, Rochester, N.Y., 2000.
• Presenter at St. John Fisher College, University of Rochester, and Nazareth College, Rochester, N.Y., Women and Film, 1999 - 2000.
• Planned and implemented structured workshops in Adobe Premiere and Documentary Video at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y. (1998-2000, 2004-2008) and Rochester Community Television, Inc., Rochester, N.Y. (1999).
• Authored and published over 25 articles and literary pieces in academic business and literary journals For complete list of publications see http://wendysmith.com/writing/index.html
• My films were screened at the following festivals:

Lancaster Short Film Festival, "In My Mothers House." - 2006

Lily Guernsey International Film and Video Festival, "How does your Garden Grow" - 2003

Lily Guernsey International Film and Video Festival, "Home Sweet Home" - 2000 (honorable mention)

Smoky Mountain Nantahala Media Festival, "The Road Home" 1997 and "Home Sweet Home" - 1999 (both received honorable mention)

Brooklyn Film Festival, "The Road Home" -1998.

"Home Sweet Home" was also screened at DUTV cable 54 in 1999, Lockport Community Television and Buffalo Movie Video Makers in1997, and received the Upstate Media Regrant in 1993. "How does Your Garden Grow?" was also screened for the No-TV Series at Visual Studies Workshop 2001, Buffalo Movie Video Makers1998, Visible Women 1993 and Regional Rewind 1991. "The Road Home" was also screened at the SPE conference 1997, Visual Studies Workshop 1997 and the Brooklyn Film Festival 1998.

• Completed Residency, Experimental Television Center, Ltd., Owego, N.Y.
• Produced and edited a documentary promo for Syracuse University Summer Sessions, sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb (1995).
• Received French government and New York State grants and co-distribution (1986-1994,1999-2000).
• Conceived, shot and produced "Perry in His Garden", shown at the International Film Market, Cannes and Cinéma du Réel in France (1986).

Ph.D., Documentary Film Studies, suma cum laude, 1986
UNIVERSITY OF PARIS AT NANTERRE, FRANCE

M.S., Television/Film/Radio, 1996
NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATONS
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, NY