Current Projects!

Finished Projects!

Music!

Scripts!

Posters!

Older Stuff!

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CURRENT PROJECTS!

140 Characters

140 CHARACTERS is the greatest sketch comedy feature film ever made except for the fact that it hasn't been made yet. It's a fun and exciting movie about why the future stopped being fun and exciting.

We're still in preproduction [about to start fundraising] but in the meantime I've been making these little promo shorts every week or so. Find out more at www.140charactersmovie.com or follow on your drug of choice:

Youtube • Instagram • Tiktok • Bluesky • Tumblr

Drew's Secret Upcoming Album

shh! don't tell anyone I might someday release new music someday it's super secret!

The Alphabet!

THE ALPHABET is a collection of visual artworkss I'm doing with stamp- and ink- based materials. It'll be at KC Fringe's gallery from October 1-14 at Union Station KC

The Portmanteau Project

The portmanteau project is a collaborative film where 15 teams are each remaking a 5-minute section (this year) PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. I have section 12 and that's all I'm gonna say about that right now.

Underdogs

A documentary we made that's currently doing its festival thing but I'll post a trailer here real real soon!

OLD FINISHED PROJECTS!

MONTHLY MICROFILMS!

In addition to the 140 characters shorts "Dumb TV" (February) and "The Scariest 59 Seconds of Footage You Will Ever See" (October, of course), which won't embed here because Youtube gave up on the "don't be evil" thing, these the 10 films I made for IFCKC's monthly 1-minute Microfilm contest (there were 10 contests in 12 months I know that's confusing).

I haven't made as many of them in 2026 because they put me in charge of running the contest!

Down at the Crossroads

Made for the June contest (the prompt was "shot at magic hour")

Squares of Grey

"On the mean streets of Chess City, things aren't always so black and white."

A Streamflix Original Series

Made for the March contest (the prompt was "black-and-white film")

THE RINO HOLE and KINETIC SCULPTURE #1095 (April)

Prompt was "single shot"

Fun fact these were both shot on the same day.

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME (May)

Theme was "Local landmarks"

"FALL BACK" (November 2025)

Theme was production design/the seasons

BATMAN V.

GENTRIFICATION (July/ August)

Theme was "tell a 2-minute film in two different genres"

DANCE WITH THE CLOUDS (September)

Prompt was "create a film based on a provided piece of music" (we had four options total)

Can We Circle Back to That?

I made a video game for the 2025 GMTK Game Jam! It's about escaping bad conversations.

You can play it here: https://drewgsmith.itch.io/can-we-circle-back

40 or 50 FILMS at KC Fringe!

I'm showing I showed a buttload of films at KC Fringe this last July! (hint: if it's not embedded here it's probably showing there). 3 shows, each with 40 or 50 films in them

For more information go to this page!

A Blaze of Light in Every Word

In addition to movies I also made some art prints from rock songs to show in the Fringe visual gallery! This took a lot of trial and error (mostly error) but. I did it somehow. They're right there ->

I also made some videos about it!

30 10-second Films in 30 Days

I made a film every day for a contest! Part of me wishes it could have been a 100 films instead of 30, but a smarter part of me wanted to not die trying.

Song of the Week III - 10th Anniversary Live

I (along with the occasional special guest) replayed all the songs from my epic 53-song project, weekly(ish), (more or less) in order, throughout the year. It was a lot!

TRAPPED!

Fall 2024

"When Kristen finds her husband sneaking home with another woman, he insists it's not what it looks like. And indeed, it's not."

This was done for a contest where five teams were given the same script and made different movies from it!

We won "Best Poster" (left)

Dangerouz Liazons

June 29, 2024

"The Lake House Players present their gorgeously rendered and stunningly faithful film adaptation of the classic novel by Some French Guy."

Made for IFCKC’s 2024 “One Night Stand” 10-hour film contest. I was at a family trip so made this off-and-on over a few hours around the lake house and sent it in remotely. Filmed with the Blackmagic Camera app on iPhone and edited in the iPad version of DaVinci Resolve

See version with original audio here: https://youtu.be/vEDv3pFh8Sg

THE LION KING

ALL BEANIE BABY REMAKE

April 24, 2024

"The only Disney Remake worth watching"

I found a bunch of our old toys and got the idea. Decided to finish it for IFCKC's 2024 trailer contest.

SPRING LANDSCAPE - MAY 2023

Filmed May 12-June 4 2023, Finished Feb 3 2024

"Let me show you an avalanche of green"

There's a long origin story to this involving a car accident but I'll tell it later.

THE GHOST OF KURT COBAIN

Filmed October 23, 2023, Finished Oct 24

"Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1994, at his home in Seattle. On October 23, 2023, he came back."

My only real documentary project to date.

DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN PAY ACTORS TO SAY ANYTHING?

Filmed April 22 2023, Finished April 29 2023

Done initially for a 3-minute film contest (view that version here). This never played as many festivals as it should have because one of our actors was SAG and there was a little concern about all the contracts or whatever. 2025 Drew would have figured it out but I was dumber then.

Music Section!

I don't always have time (or sometimes, the energy) to book a lot of live shows but here's one I played in January! (including the debut of 1.5 new songs!)

THEORY

October 2022

My first or possibly sixth album, a concept piece about conspiracy theories.

Listen on: bandcamp • spotify • amazon • youtube • apple music

The youtube versions of these keep disapearing and then reappearing at new URLs. I'm working on getting them permanently uploaded Youtube with lyrics videos but it's always the 5th or 6th thing on my to-do list, so right now there's only one out:

Song A Day

May 1-31 2019

Unlike Song of the Week, this one is exactly what it sounds like

Streaming/purchase at: Bandcamp • Spotify • Amazon • Soundcloud • Youtube Music (includes bonus tracks) • Apple Music

Bonus Tracks Album: Bandcamp • Spotify • Amazon • Soundcloud • Apple Music

Rad Holiday Songz! 2015-2020

A compilation of Holiday songs from... 2015 to 2020

[ Bandcamp ] • [ Apple Music ] • [ Spotify ] • [ Youtube (Missing a Few Tracks) • [ Amazon ] • [ Soundcloud ]

Song of the Week One

2008-2009

Bandcamp • Apple • Youtube • Soundcloud • Amazon • Spotify

Song of the Week 2

2009-2010

[ Bandcamp ] • [ Spotify ] • [ Amazon ] • [ Soundcloud ] • [ Youtube ] • [ Apple ]

Song of the Week III

2014-2016

Bandcamp (this is the only version with every unabridged track including the mashups) • Apple • Amazon • Spotify • Soundcloud • Youtube (playlist with a lot of missing tracks) • Youtube (full album)

Bonus Tracks: Bandcamp • Soundcloud • Spotify • Apple • Amazon

Older Stuff!

SIX WORDS, THREE SENTENCES: A LONG POST ABOUT SHORT FILMS

This was an advice piece I wrote for short filmmakers! I'll probably migrate it over to this site soon but for now you can read the original post here. I've made a lot of stuff since then, I wonder if I;d cringe reading it now.

"Q&A" [aka "Standard Intake Questionnaire"]

Summer 2022

"If you have any information, please contact us"

This was a long-gestating project (something like 8 years maybe), in part because it turns out computers can't process huge text scrolls like this easily.