Molly E. Smith

Molly Smith is a 19 year old writer, filmmaker, and songwriter. In 2018, she wrote the screenplay "Words to Speak, Stories to Tell" which won the Nellie and Fred Chasin Screenwriting award at the Palm Beach Student Showcase. She adapted the screenplay into the short film "I Don't Know" which has screened at over 18 film festivals nationwide, winning 6 top awards, and a regional student production award from Suncoast Emmys, and a nomination for a National Student Production Emmy. Her next film, "Dear America" has received over 600,000 views online and recently won a National Student Emmy in the PSA category and the National Coalition Against Censorship's Youth Free Expression Film contest. Also an accomplished playwright, her dystopian play, "God Bless America" went on to win a Scholastic National Gold Medal in the summer of 2019 and recently premiered on stage at the Be Original Theatre Festival in Orlando, FL, winning Molly the award for top playwright under age 24. Her writing was also recognized with a National Student Production Emmy in the writing craft category and a finalist nomination at NFFTY's Story Starts Here competition. She was recently named a 2020 Cameron Impact Scholar by the Bryan Cameron Education Foundation. Molly's goal is to use the medium of film and her passion as a writer to tell stories which spark conversations and change perspectives. Currently on a gap year, Molly is working with the 5000 Days Project and Feeding Children Everywhere producing impactful documentary style films. She will be attending Yale University in Fall, 2021.