
Jato Smith
Directing
Known For

Aspiring fashion designers compete for a chance to break into the industry. Each week, a designer is eliminated from the competition after exhibiting their work in front of a judges' panel.
Project Runway

A spoiled executive climbs his way back up the corporate ladder, one humiliating temp job at a time.
The Temp Life

Ten years after witnessing her older sister's brutal murder, Jenny Traylor leaves her hometown in North Carolina to start her freshman year at the University of New York City. Still traumatized by her sister's death and struggling with crippling agoraphobia, Jenny tries to cope with the overwhelming city and figure out her new life.
Red Hook

According to the Unofficial Book of Etiquette for Blacks, everything is open for consideration, but homosexuality and interracial dating. Kevin unwittingly learns this lesson when he introduces his significant other to childhood best friends.
Taboo

Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was dubiously convicted for the shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper and was sentenced to life in prison, only to escape two years later and seek refuge in Cuba.