Dr David Smith BSc (Hons) PhD FRSA is a director-cameraman

and producer specializing in broadcast television documentaries,

radio broadcasts, books and articles on science, social issues and

the environment.

With more than a decade spent as a research physiologist and

lecturer in zoology, David published more than 35 research papers

and worked in Australia, Canada, Sweden and on the Amazon

River in Brazil.

David has worked as Director, Cameraman, Producer, Writer, &/or

Presenter on more than twenty broadcast documentaries and

hosted his own weekly national television series, David Smith’s

Earthwatch, on ABC TV for two years.

Senior Researcher for the ABC/BBC series Nature of Australia,

‘resident zoologist’ on the Don Lane and Bert Newton Shows,

David was for a time weatherman and  environment specialist for

Channel 7 Melbourne. 

Author of six books, including two critically acclaimed thrillers,

David was also ghost writer for the 1100-page tertiary text Biology,

published by McGraw-Hill. He recently worked as Associate

Producer and Animation Supervisor on the large-format (IMAX)

documentary Australia: land beyond time.

David established imaginACTION in 1987 as a company

dedicated to taking imaginative ideas and converting them into

reality.

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