Wilma Smith is a writer/director and dedicated working mother from a town called Coatbridge, east of Glasgow in Scotland.

Wilma’s own story and passion for telling stories through film of all genres started at the age of thirteen when she borrowed a VHS camera and Dictaphone to make her first stop motion animation. Upon leaving school, she knew she wanted to pursue filmmaking – writing and directing in particular but didn’t know how to go about it and so began working full time as a care assistant.

In 1996, Wilma was introduced to the Glasgow Film and Video Workshop through one of her early collaborators and member of the grassroots filmmaking scene, Duncan Finnigan. In that same year she was accepted to study Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art where she benefited from the student discounts in buying and processing film stock, making it possible for her to write and direct on 16mm film.