Directing
David Robinson-Smith
Born
1988-07-22 (38)
Place of birth
Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
Known for
Directing
Credits
15 titles
David Robinson-Smith is an award-winning Australian writer and director based in Budgewoi on New South Wales' Central Coast. His storytelling explores themes of ambiguity, regret, memory, and class, often focusing on morally complex characters to uncover the nuances within these areas. David's filmography includes the short film Mud Crab (2022), which has garnered international recognition. It has been featured at prestigious events such as the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (USA), Raindance Film Festival (London), Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia), and the BAFTA Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York). Mud Crab has won multiple awards at CILECT, the Australian Dire…
Known for
6.2Reflecting on her culpability, a woman recounts the traumatising assault she witnessed of a young man in a small Australian coastal town.
Mud Crab
2022
6.5After breaking into his landlord’s home, a mysterious renter forces him to read a cryptic poem that unravels the landlord’s involvement in a exploitative system of profit and power.
We Used to Own Houses
2023
NRA visual piece about the trappings of modern life and loneliness.
trap
2019
NRAn Austin Powers impersonator has a mental breakdown on a job.
Austin Flowers
2015
NRA live concert of Wolf & Cub at the Watagan Forest Motel in 2021.
Wolf & Cub: Dusk at the Watagan Forest Motel
2021
NRA short film on dance and violence
Budgewoi Boy
2018
Behind the camera
6.2Reflecting on her culpability, a woman recounts the traumatising assault she witnessed of a young man in a small Australian coastal town.
Mud Crab
2022
6.2Reflecting on her culpability, a woman recounts the traumatising assault she witnessed of a young man in a small Australian coastal town.
Mud Crab
2022
6.5After breaking into his landlord’s home, a mysterious renter forces him to read a cryptic poem that unravels the landlord’s involvement in a exploitative system of profit and power.
We Used to Own Houses
2023
6.5After breaking into his landlord’s home, a mysterious renter forces him to read a cryptic poem that unravels the landlord’s involvement in a exploitative system of profit and power.
We Used to Own Houses
2023
NRA visual piece about the trappings of modern life and loneliness.
trap
2019
NRA visual piece about the trappings of modern life and loneliness.
trap
2019
NRAn Austin Powers impersonator has a mental breakdown on a job.
Austin Flowers
2015
NRAn Austin Powers impersonator has a mental breakdown on a job.
Austin Flowers
2015
NRA live concert of Wolf & Cub at the Watagan Forest Motel in 2021.
Wolf & Cub: Dusk at the Watagan Forest Motel
2021
NRA short film on dance and violence
Budgewoi Boy
2018
NRA short film on dance and violence
Budgewoi Boy
2018
8.0A dark fairy tale about two brothers who re-live a strange encounter with a man on Christmas Day, their memories shifting until the truth becomes something unknowable—something that quietly, irrevocably changes them.
The Shirt Off Your Back
2025
8.0A dark fairy tale about two brothers who re-live a strange encounter with a man on Christmas Day, their memories shifting until the truth becomes something unknowable—something that quietly, irrevocably changes them.
The Shirt Off Your Back
2025
NRA young man tries to wash away his failures
Go or Don’t Go
2019
NRA young man tries to wash away his failures
Go or Don’t Go
2019