Patrick Milling Smith co-founded production company Smuggler with Brian Carmody. Smuggler has brought home the Cannes Lions Palme d'Or three times (including most recently in 2015) and has brought home several Cannes Lions Grand Prixs, Titanium Grand Prix, and two Emmy Awards amongst other accolades. It has been awarded ‘Production Company of the Year’ by several leading commercial industry magazines and award shows over the past few years, including 2010 by Creativity magazine. Smuggler was awarded 2011 Clio Awards Production Company of the Year and received a 2011 Made in New York Award by Mayor Bloomberg.
Patrick produced Greetings from Tim Buckley and executive produced both Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian starring Benicio Del Toro and Electric Slide starring Jim Sturgess, Chloe Sevigny and Patricia Arquette. Upcoming film projects include Beautiful Ruins to be adapted by Todd Field,Weightless written by Enda Walsh and starring Alessandro Nivola, a remake of cult classic The Wild Geese written by William Monahan and the adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s play Becket written by William Monahan and to be directed by Michael Mann.