CB Smith-Dahl
CB Smith-Dahl is disruptive. She started working in film at a time when women behind the scenes were expected to make coffee and type up scripts. She did neither.
After learning photography and multi-camera soap opera production in an alternative high school, she worked as a camera assistant on music videos during college and began directing short films. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Ms. Smith-Dahl put her directing on hold for nearly a decade, while continuing to work on documentaries, low budget/indie film, and syndicated television as a Lighting Technician/Grip, Camerawoman and Director of Photography. This work led to jobs as a Videographer and Writer/Director for red carpet/celebrity news outlets. She also had small roles on several award winning documentaries, including “Angola: Prison Rodeo” which was nominated for an Academy Award. Next, she had twin girls and started her own production company, Together Pictures. She’s directed, lit & lensed hundreds of educational and promotional videos for government agencies, non-profits, and small businesses. She has a BA from Spelman College and MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Ms. Smith-Dahl does drink coffee. Daily. Makes it for herself.
She’s has worked as a Director of Photography on these recent documentaries.
- Class of 2020, Director: Dana Romanoff
- Clarissa's Battle, Director: Tamara Perkins
- Every Girl Matters, Director: Gloria Moran
She’s has Directed these recent documentaries.
- A Dancer's Tribute, Experimental Dance Documentary Co-Directed with Tonya Marie Amos
- Our Stories, Our Spaces, Non-Profit Event
- Ambassador Hotel, Green Upgrades Impact
- Welcome to AIDS2020, Promotional Documentary
CB Smith-Dahl is currently in post-production on a documentary about a street in Oakland, California as it's developed and (re)developed over the course of 75 years.
Sessions in which CB Smith-Dahl attends
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Claire Aguilar, International Documentary Associati (Participant)
Randy Haberkamp, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Participant)
Simon Kilmurry, International Documentary Association (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Molly Thompson, A+E Networks (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Conversation
Bob Carlson, KCRW - UnFictional (Participant)
Matthew Holzman, KCRW (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Panel
Andrés Cediel, UC Berkeley (Participant)
Carrie Lozano, Sundance Institute (Moderator)
Dale Cohen, UCLA School of Law (Participant)
Marilyn Ness, Big Mouth Productions (Participant)
Katie Townsend, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Panel
Karen Konicek, Zipporah Films, Inc. (Moderator)
Alice Apley, Documentary Educational Resources (Participant)
Efuru Flowers, Flourishing Films (Participant)
Debra Zimmerman, Women Make Movies (Moderator)
Jonathan Skurnik, Skurnik Productions, LLC (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Conversation
Morgan Neville, Tremolo (Participant)
Judd Apatow, Apatow Productions (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Doug Block, The D-Word (Moderator)
Heidi Fleisher, D-Word co-host (Moderator)
Peter Gerard, The D-Word (Moderator)
Hussain Currimbhoy, Sundance Film Festival (Participant)
Erica Ginsberg, The D-Word (Moderator)
Marshall Curry, Marshall Curry Productions (Participant)
Nausheen Dadabhoy, Firelight Media (Participant)
Marilyn Ness, Big Mouth Productions (Participant)
Heidi Reinberg, Heidi Reinberg Big Idea, LLC (Participant)
Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in Cinema (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Michèle Stephenson, Rada Film Group (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Loira Limbal, Firelight Media (Moderator)
Lyric R Cabral, Filmmaker (T)ERROR (Participant)
Jason DaSilva, AXS LAB INC. (Participant)
Ben-Alex Dupris, Bendigenous (Participant)
Deborah S. Esquenazi, Myth of Monsters Media, LLC (Participant)
Edwin Martinez, Nicole Films (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Workshop
Frederick Wiseman, Zipporah Films (Participant)
Arena Cinelounge - Theater
Workshop
Barak Goodman, Ark Media (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Workshop
Robert Bahar, Semilla Verde Productions, Ltd. (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Lisa Chanoff, Catapult Film Fund (Participant)
Monika Navarro, Firelight Media (Participant)
Bonni Cohen, Catapult Film Fund/ Actual Films (Moderator)
Molly Thompson, A+E Networks (Participant)
Caroline von Kuhn, Sundance Institute (Participant)
Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (Participant)
Carrie Lozano, Sundance Institute (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Panel
Danny Alpert, Kindling Group (Participant)
Laura Fallsgraff, Kindling Group (Moderator)
Michael Fequiere, Great Big Story (Participant)
Kristin Pichaske, Kindling Group (Moderator)
Jacob Kornbluth, Inequality Media (Participant)
Kathleen Lingo, The New York Times (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Chi-hui Yang, Ford Foundation (Participant)
The Montalbán - Theatre
Game Show
Brian Babylon, Babylon Industries (Participant)
NeueHouse Hollywood - NeueHouse Hollywood
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Keynote
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Presentation
Steven Beer, Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C. (Participant)
Steve Holmgren (Participant)
Fred Siegel, Fred Siegel CPA (Participant)
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
Convening
Alix Blair, Collective of Documentary Women Cinematographers (Moderator)
Jen Gilomen, Forward Films, Collective of Documentary Women Cinematographers, New Day Films (Moderator)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Kevin Iwashina, International Documentary Association, Endeavor Content (Moderator)
Alan Eyres, National Geographic (Participant)
Jannat Gargi, VulcanProductions (Participant)
Julie Goldman, Motto Pictures (Participant)
Justine Nagan, American Documentary / POV & America ReFramed (Participant)
Poh Si Teng, AJE Witness (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Leslie Fields-Cruz, Black Public Media (Participant)
Renee Tajima-Pena, A-Doc, UCLA (Moderator)
Leanne Ferrer, Pacific Islanders in Communications (Participant)
Stephen Gong, CAAM (Participant)
Luis Ortiz, Latino Public Broadcasting (Participant)
Shirley Sneve, SKS Consulting (Participant)
Donald Young, CAAM (Participant)
Presentation
Ellen Schneider (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Alexandra Johnes, *Very Special Projects / Eaton Workshop (Moderator)
Justine Nagan, American Documentary / POV & America ReFramed (Participant)
Brenda Robinson, Gamechanger Films (Participant)
Josh Penn, The Department of Motion Pictures (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Lawrence Carter-Long, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (Moderator)
Jason DaSilva, AXS LAB INC. (Participant)
Cheryl Green (Participant)
Jim LeBrecht, Crip Camp (Participant)
Day Al-Mohamed, Invalid Corps Film (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Debra Zimmerman, Women Make Movies (Moderator)
David Eisenberg, ITVS (Participant)
Beth Levison, Doc Producers Alliance (Participant)
Tabitha Jackson, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (Participant)
Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Claire Aguilar, International Documentary Associati (Participant)
Simon Kilmurry, International Documentary Association (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Screening
Randy Haberkamp, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Moderator)
Rebekah Maysles, Maysles Films (Participant)