Welcome to the website of Parrish Smith!

Parrish Smith takes pleasure in crafting purposeful compositions in order to help translate and motivate the story.  

An award winning Producer, Director and Cinematographer, Parrish has been the force behind numerous commercials, short and feature-length films, music videos, corporate, journalism news, and documentaries.  Parrish has been one of the most sought after cinematographers in the world, working for clients such as CBS, UPN, FOX, BET, Black Starz, Nickelodeon, Converse, Gillette, Discovery, L'Oreal, and MTV etc.  In fact, many of his projects have appeared in numerous film festivals... Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, American Black Film Festival (ABFF), Hollywood Black, Fespaco, Pan-African, UrbanWorld, and San-Francisco Black just to name a few... and on networks such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV, TUBI,  Showtime, NBC, BET, etc.  

A few of his film credits are... "The Mecca of Comedy" (Apple TV, Amazon Prime, TUBI), featuring Wanda Sykes, Tommy Davidson, and Martin Lawrence... "The Scroll" (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tubi, Aspire), featuring T.D. Jakes, Bernice King, Jeremiah Wright, and others... “The Last Adam”  (Aspire, Netflix), featuring Leonard Roberts, Gregory Alan Williams, and Anita Gillette... "Nocturnal Agony" (Amazon Prime, Tubi), featuring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs & Vernee Watson... "Man in the Mirror", featuring Martin Sheen, Michael Dunn, and Johnny Brown.

In addition to Parrish Smith's film career, he has also worked as a photojournalist for CBS NEWS, Fox 5 NY & DC, BET NEWS, and UPN9 NEWS in NYC.  He's worked through “Katrina”, “911”, "The Puffy Trial", “George Floyd Protests", "January 6 US Capitol Riot", "Tyre Nichols Protest in Memphis" and many other stories.

In a recent interview, Parrish described his passion for creating by saying, “Being a visual communicator is what I am. I love the whole process… lighting, framing, collaboration, blocking, working with talent, etc. In order to be great, you must know every facet of the art form".