PAMELA JAYE SMITH is a Mythologist, Author, international Consultant/Speaker, and award-winning Writer/Producer/Director with over thirty years experience in features, TV, music videos, commercials, documentaries, corporate, and military films, and web series.
Founder MYTHWORKS Since 1992 – Applied Mythology for You
Co-founder Alpha Babe Academy
Co-founder Mythic Challenges “Create Stories that Change the World”
Thought Leader at Stage 32
Co-founder Hollywood Master Seminars
Smith is the co-author of SHOW ME THE LOVE! All Kinds of Love for All Kinds of Stories. Her books INNER DRIVES: How to Write and Create Characters Using the Eight Classic Centers of Motivation, THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE: Creating Great Villains and Dangerous Situations and SYMBOLS.IMAGES.CODES: The Secret Language of Images in Media, and ROMANTIC COMEDIES: A Movie Guide for your Every Mood, are all from Hollywood filmbook publishers Michael Wiese Productions. She also wrote BEYOND THE HERO’S JOURNEY.
MYTHWORKS is Pamela’s consultation and information company featuring “Applied Mythology for more Powerful Reality”. She teaches and consults on story, communication, leadership, and creativity.
MYTHWORKS also consults with organizations and individuals redesigning themselves and their images. Get your own Personal Mythology assessment.
Clients and credits include 20th Century Fox, Microsoft, Disney, Paramount, Universal, RAI-TV Rome, UCLA, USC Film School, American Film Institute, Natl. Film Institute of Denmark, Great American PitchFest, STORYexpo, Pepperdine University, Mensa, Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters, Rocaberti Writers Retreat, LA Webfest, Marseille Webfest, Jaipur India International Film Festival, and various other film festivals and story conferences.
Others include the Institute for Global Transformation, the Consciousness Expo, American Assoc. of University Women, Junior ROTC, General Motors, Boeing, Hyundai, Hughes Space & Communications, the FBI, West Point, and the U.S. Army.
TANKS & BOARDS
Ms. Smith is on the Board of Advisors and is a jurist for the Jaipur India International Film Festival’s Library Academy Awards. She’s also on the Board of Advisors for the LA Webfest, the Orpheus Project, and the Center for Conscious Creativity. For 34 Circe Media Pamela is the Creative & Mythology Advisor. She has served on the Entertainment Industry Council think-tank, a Boeing Think Tank on Workforce Development, and Birth2Work, an organization dedicated to Redefining Community Leadership with a focus on education.
During the 1990s she was part of the U.S. Army’s Advanced Warfighting Working Group.
Pamela lectures and consults on Group Dynamics, Divergent Thinking, Leadership, the Warrior Spirit, Ethics and Values. Her production company wrote and designed the Command Briefing CD for the U.S. Army Signal Command. She is also a Production Consultant, helping companies plan and produce their media projects more efficiently and effectively.
Various projects have taken Smith to the Arctic, the Andes, SE Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. She has filmed on the largest off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, slept in grass huts and eaten guinea pig under Ecuador’s highest volcano, caught her own sushi in the Leyte Gulf, and rappelled into the jungles of Mindanao searching for lost WWII Japanese gold.
Director Joel Schumacher & Pamela Jaye at Universal Studios
In the 1980s Pamela spent four years in production at Universal Studios working on TV series, feature films, and TV movies. She then was a free-lance producer, director, production manager and assistant director on commercials, music videos, documentaries, military and corporate films.
Pamela is an avid reader, drives classic cars, and enjoys opera. A dilettante approach to sports has included surfing, skiing, snorkeling, flying, go-cart & auto racing, and driving an off-shore oil rig and an Army tank — both under close supervision.
PAN PACIFIC SOUTHEAST ASIA WOMEN’S ASSOC. Past President – LA Chapter
BOEING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT THINK TANK
U.S. ARMY ADVANCED WARFIGHTING WORKING GROUP
CHINA EXPLORATION & RESEARCH SOCIETY
CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM
WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD – Millennium Edition
AIR FORCE WAR COLLEGE 1992 & 1997 – NATIONAL SECURITY FORUMS
ARMY WAR COLLEGE 1996 – NATIONAL SECURITY SEMINAR
THE WISDOM SCHOOLS – 7 yrs formal study; 2 yrs Teaching Certificate
AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY – post-graduate studies in Intelligence
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at Austin – BA English; Latin, Film
NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, Denton – Music, English, Latin
CONTACT: pamelajayesmith@gmail.com