Daniel Blake Smith

An Emmy award-winning filmmaker and writer, Daniel Blake Smith wrote and produced the award-winning feature film, Texas Heart (Indie Rights, 2016), a crime thriller starring John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Lin Shaye (Insidious), which is now out on Amazon and other digital platforms. He has other feature scripts in development: among them, Blood Born, a thriller; and War Wounds, a true story about the professional and personal struggles of a war correspondent who survived a Taliban-fired RPG attack in Afghanistan to his face. Based on the award-winning book by Carmen Gentile, Blindsided by the Taliban (2018). Among Smith's other works that he's written and produced, include feature narrative films and documentaries, including the Emmy-nominated February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four, which was broadcast on PBS's "Independent Lens"; Smith also wrote the acclaimed, prize-winning feature documentary, Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy, hosted by Cherokee film star Wes Studi and narra