PAMELA JAYE SMITH is a Mythologist, Author, international Consultant-Speaker, and award-winning Writer-Producer-Director with thirty plus years experience in features, TV, music videos, commercials, documentaries, web series, corporate and military films.

Her script The Cuban Circuit was one of five winners at the 2015 Bahamas International Film Festival; where she and co-writer Monty Hayes McMillan attended the Screenwriters Residency Program.

Smith is the author of THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE, INNER DRIVES, SYMBOLS IMAGES CODES, SHOW ME THE LOVE!, BEYOND THE HERO’S JOURNEY, and ROMANTIC COMEDIES as well as fiction.  She appears as a myth expert for Fox’s “Ice Age Continental Drift”, Microsoft’s “Age of Mythology” game, "The Great Work",  “Forbidden Secrets” TV series, and the “American Jedi” documentary.

Pamela founded MYTHWORKS, offering Applied Mythology for individuals, organizations, and the media arts. She consults on fiction and non-fiction, writes for others, coaches writers and actors, and helps individuals discover and use their own personal archetypes and myths. 

She is co-founder of “Mythic Challenges: Create Stories that Change the World”, teaching people to use Mythic Themes, Archetypes and Symbols to address the 15 Global Challenges as identified by the Millennium Project in association with the United Nations. The pilot program worked with students in LA and Afghanistan. Mythic Challenges won the c3 FutureVision Award in 2012 and there is a Mythic Challenges Award in the Bilbao Webfest. 

Credits include Fox, Disney, Paramount, Microsoft, Universal, RAI-TV Rome, UCLA, USC Film School, American Film Institute, Women in Film, Natl. Film Institute of Denmark, LA and Marseille WebFests, Jaipur India Film Fest, South by SouthWest, Pepperdine University, Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters, and many other film festivals and story conferences. Others are American Assoc. of University Women, Junior ROTC, GM, Boeing, Hyundai, Hughes Space & Comm., the FBI, and the U.S. Army.

Ms. Smith served on Think Tanks for the Entertainment Industries Council, Boeing’s Workforce Development, and the U.S. Army’s Advanced Warfighting Working Group at Fort Knox. She is on the Board of Advisors for the LAWebfest, c3 Center for Conscious Creativity, and The Orpheus Project.

Various projects have taken Smith to the Arctic, the Andes, SE Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. She has filmed on the largest off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, slept in grass huts and eaten guinea pig under Ecuador’s highest volcano, caught her own sushi in the Leyte Gulf, and rappelled into the jungles of Mindanao searching for WWII Japanese gold.

Pamela is an avid reader, drives classic cars, and enjoys opera. A dilettante approach to sports has included surfing, skiing, snorkeling, flying, go-cart & auto racing, and driving an off-shore oil rig and an Army tank -- both under close supervision.

PAN PACIFIC SOUTHEAST ASIA WOMEN'S ASSOC. Past President - LA Chapter
BOEING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT THINK TANK   
U.S. ARMY ADVANCED WARFIGHTING WORKING GROUP       
CHINA EXPLORATION & RESEARCH SOCIETY   CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM
Master Mason co-ed Lodge  

AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY – post-graduate courses in Intelligence
AIR FORCE WAR COLLEGE 1992  & 1997 - NATIONAL SECURITY FORUMS
ARMY WAR COLLEGE 1996 - NATIONAL SECURITY SEMINAR
WISDOM SCHOOLS, Philosophical Research Society LA - 7 yrs formal study. Teaching Certificate.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at Austin - BA English, Latin, Film    
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, Denton - Music, English, Latin

HOLLYWOOD, CA   USA
323-874-6447  pamelajayesmith@gmail.com   www.mythworks.net