Misha Manson-Smith

Director

  • Work
    • Selected
    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Documentary
    • Complete Episodes
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    • Selected
    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Documentary
    • Complete Episodes
  • Information

Documentary
Death in Gaza, Clip "Funeral"

“Death In Gaza deserved its Emmys, and deserves its continuing renown... infuriating, tragic and brilliant”

The Guardian

“Death in Gaza is an exemplary piece of filmmaking, of which Miller would rightly be proud”

Independent on Sunday

“An extraordinary documentary…”

The Times

 

WINNER - EMMY Award - Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking

WINNER - EMMY Award - Non-Fiction Directing

WINNER - EMMY Award – Cinematography

NOMINATED - EMMY Award – Non-fiction Writing

NOMINATED - BAFTA Craft Award, Factual Editing

WINNER - BAFTA Award, Current Affairs

WINNER - Audience Award, Hot Docs Toronto

WINNER - Innovation in Direction, Chicago Documentary Film Festival

WINNER - Sterling Award for a Feature Film, AFI Silverdocs

WINNER - Rory Peck Award for Features

NOMINATED - RTS Award, Current Affairs

NOMINATED - Grierson Award, International Cinema Documentary

 

FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

Berlin, Chicago, Toronto, Amnesty USA, Seattle, LA, AFI, Galway, Flanders, Barcelona, Melbourne & Stockholm

 

La La Land, Clip "Shark"

A Showtime Original Series. Writer, director and EP. Starring Marc Wootton as wannabe documentary maker Brendan, celebrity psychic Shirley and cab driver turner actor Gary, the show charts their adventures in the underbelly of Los Angeles.

Awards

Rose D'Or - Nominated Best Comedy

“It’s perfectly acted, cushion-bitingly awkward and, above all, very funny.”

Tim Arthur, Time Out 

“The show that starts out innocently enough and soon accelerates to the point where you can scarcely believe what is taking place. Genius.”

Ali Caterral, The Guardian

“It’s genuinely funny.”

Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Frequently astonishing… extremely funny… terrifyingly good.”

Radio Times

“Beautifully conceived… gloriously silly and devastatingly funny.”

Word

“La La Land is a genius idea, brilliantly executed.”

The Daily Mirror

“The world of celebrity exposed in all its horrendous glory.”

GQ

“Comedian Marc Wootton, a more complicated, more perverse and arguably just as brilliant version of Sacha Baron Cohen, lands in Los Angeles armed with three tenacious alter egos poised to grab the zeitgeist by its skinny throat and choke the life out of it… La La Land may be the single funniest thing I've seen on TV in the past year.”

Heather Havrilesky, Salon.com

Hoff the Record - Pilot

Presentation pilot I developed, wrote and directed, which became the International Emmy winning comedy series Hoff The Record.

La La Land - Episode One

A Showtime Original Series. Writer, director and EP. Starring Marc Wootton as wannabe documentary maker Brendan, celebrity psychic Shirley and cab driver turner actor Gary, the show charts their adventures in the underbelly of Los Angeles.

Awards

Rose D'Or - Nominated Best Comedy

“It’s perfectly acted, cushion-bitingly awkward and, above all, very funny.”

Tim Arthur, Time Out 

“The show that starts out innocently enough and soon accelerates to the point where you can scarcely believe what is taking place. Genius.”

Ali Caterral, The Guardian

“It’s genuinely funny.”

Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Frequently astonishing… extremely funny… terrifyingly good.”

Radio Times

“Beautifully conceived… gloriously silly and devastatingly funny.”

Word

“La La Land is a genius idea, brilliantly executed.”

The Daily Mirror

“The world of celebrity exposed in all its horrendous glory.”

GQ

“Comedian Marc Wootton, a more complicated, more perverse and arguably just as brilliant version of Sacha Baron Cohen, lands in Los Angeles armed with three tenacious alter egos poised to grab the zeitgeist by its skinny throat and choke the life out of it… La La Land may be the single funniest thing I've seen on TV in the past year.”

Heather Havrilesky, Salon.com

La La Land, Clip "Gary Ribs Story pt1"

A Showtime Original Series. Writer, director and EP. Starring Marc Wootton as wannabe documentary maker Brendan, celebrity psychic Shirley and cab driver turner actor Gary, the show charts their adventures in the underbelly of Los Angeles.

Awards

Rose D'Or - Nominated Best Comedy

“It’s perfectly acted, cushion-bitingly awkward and, above all, very funny.”

Tim Arthur, Time Out 

“The show that starts out innocently enough and soon accelerates to the point where you can scarcely believe what is taking place. Genius.”

Ali Caterral, The Guardian

“It’s genuinely funny.”

Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Frequently astonishing… extremely funny… terrifyingly good.”

Radio Times

“Beautifully conceived… gloriously silly and devastatingly funny.”

Word

“La La Land is a genius idea, brilliantly executed.”

The Daily Mirror

“The world of celebrity exposed in all its horrendous glory.”

GQ

“Comedian Marc Wootton, a more complicated, more perverse and arguably just as brilliant version of Sacha Baron Cohen, lands in Los Angeles armed with three tenacious alter egos poised to grab the zeitgeist by its skinny throat and choke the life out of it… La La Land may be the single funniest thing I've seen on TV in the past year.”

Heather Havrilesky, Salon.com

© Misha Manson-Smith.