Cauleen Smith
- Director
- Actress
- Editor
Cauleen Smith was born in Riverside, California and grew up in the
Sacramento area. She completed her B.A. at San Francisco State
University in 1991 and her M.F.A. in Film at UCLA in 1998. Her feature
length film Drylongso received a lot of attention after its showing at
the Sundance Film Festival. It earned Smith the Movado Someone to Watch
Award as well as Best Feature Film at the Urbanworld Film Festival and
the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival in 2000. Since then she has
been very busy, completing many films including The Fullness of Time
which was filmed in New Orleans only two years after Hurricane Katrina
hit. Her most recent project is an experimental documentary about the
late Chicago-based jazz artist Sun-Ra, whose eclectic style changed the
Chicago jazz scene forever. Smith teaches in the Visual Arts department
at the University of California, San Diego and continues to write,
direct, and produce.
