- Taught mathematics at The King's School, Australia's oldest independent school for boys.
- Studied under prominent Australian film critic, David Stratton. In 2011, Stratton wrote that Smith's enthusiasm for film matched his own.
- Lectured in filmmaking at SAE Institute, Perth, 2007-2016.
- Has often cited his favourite directors to be Woody Allen, Darren Aronofsky, Bruce Beresford, Ingmar Bergman, Xavier Dolan, Clint Eastwood, Nicole Holofcener, Richard Linklater, Jason Reitman, Steven Soderbergh and Lars von Trier.
- Has been accepted into over three hundred international film festivals.
- Often works with multiple directors of photography on the one film.
- Was awarded Best Director at the 2011 West Australian Screen Awards for Then She Was Gone (2010). In his acceptance speech, he dedicated the award to Howard Worth, a former teacher, who had told Smith on several occasions that he would never succeed as a director.
- Threw himself through a skylight, dropping three metres to a couch below, when he was unable to afford a stuntman for his first film, The Intruder (2003).
- His short film, The Things My Father Never Taught Me (2012), has been accepted into over one hundred and thirty film festivals across eighteen countries.
- Opened the Perth International Arts Festival's LotteryWest Films Season with Love Like You've Never Been Hurt (2009).
- Edits his films under the pseudonym Ross Farnsworth.
- Won the Garden State Film Festival's Screenwriting Competition with You Can't Play the Game If You Don't Know the Rules. An on-stage reading of the screenplay was held in Atlantic City in 2014, directed by Diane Ladd.
- Often works with children and animals.
- Has often cited his favourite films to be Breaking the Waves (1996), The Limey (1999), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Rocky (1976), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Talk to Her (2002), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Virgin Spring (1960), The Visitor (2007) and Whiplash (2014).
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content