Owen A Smith
Script Writer & Programme Developer
When Owen studied Media Television and Radio Production at The North East Surrey College of Technology as a mature student in the early 1990’s. He was disappointed that TV and Film’s, rarely portrayed black people in a positive light on screen and only saw negative stereo typical images of black people on screen back then.
With his natural father, having been a successful businessman living in New York, Owens experience of seeing positive television programming around black character on TV was gained when visiting his father in the summer holidays. With series such as “The Cosy show”. Owen set out to create a UK TV series offering a positive perspective for black people away from the stereo typical images see before.
Engaging with two experienced script writers from his home town in the leafy green town of Leatherhead in Surrey. Owen learnt to script write on the job within an experienced team of writers. with interest from the BBC his first efforts being a TV sitcom. He has since gone on to creating his own main stream TV drama series and Feature films which will slowly emerge on to the MovieLux slate. He brings with him a unique wealth of life experience which is seldom found in many and has been commissioned to write several screenplay adaptions for feature films and has helped to developing existing screen plays for other production companies who have commissioned him to develop their feature films scripts.