Wilma
Smith
Writer, Director, and Animator
The jubilee
The Jubilee is a 2024 short film directed by Wilma Smith that blends live-action with handcrafted stop-motion animation. It follows Mimi, an elderly woman navigating the fog of dementia and the fragments of her life as she and her husband mark their 60th wedding anniversary. The film uses inventive napkin-drawn animated sequences to evoke memory, loss and emotional disorientation, contrasting Mimi’s inner experiences with scenes from the real-world celebration.
Missed calls
Missed Calls is a short experimental documentary that follows director Wilma Smith as she returns to her family home and listens to saved voice messages left by her late parents. It uses these recordings, alongside old family photos and small vignettes, to tell moving and humorous stories
THE REVIEW
13 year old Darren plays in a professional Scottish youth team and his annual review is coming up. His mum Yvonne and the entire family spend many weekends supporting him, but what if his dream of becoming a pro-footballer comes crashing down? A film about suburbia and the quirks of every day life.
WWilma Smith is a Scottish writer, director, and animator working across animated and live-action film. She was selected for the Netflix-funded Women in Film & Television Four Nations Mentoring Scheme (2025), and her animated feature project The Three Graces is currently in early development, having received a Jury’s Special Mention Award at the Animatic Pitch at the Glasgow Film Festival. Her short film The Jubilee, funded by Screen Scotland and BFI Network, was nominated for the Light in Motion Short Film Competition at the Academy-qualifying Foyle Film Festival and for the Thelma Schoonmaker Prize for Short Filmmaking Excellence at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2024.