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(VIDEO) "Traffic Jam" a short film by Charlie Smith
Feb 8, 2010 - 7:19:00 PM

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Nassau, Bahamas - We all know how driving in traffic can be agitating! 

Check out this short film directed by award winning
Bahamian filmmaker, Charlie Smith, which was shot in The Bahamas.

This film gives a sweet and funny solution to the universal problem of traffic jams...

Charles Allan Smith (Charlie) is a Multi award-winning Filmmaker/Photographer with more than twenty years of experience as a director, photographer, writer, producer and on-air talent. He has participated in almost every aspect of the media including print, television and film, working equally well behind the scenes and in front of the camera. Charlie has created, produced, directed, hosted and acted in many television shows and films that have aired throughout the world. He has also produced written and/or directed music videos and television commercials for the U.S. and international markets.

Smith has worked on productions for noted artists like Sidney Poitier, Puff Daddy, Ricky Martin, Joss Stone, Rita Marley and Gloria Estefan. He has also produced programs for clients: Sony, CBS, Atlantic Records, EMI, Columbia Records, The Associated Press, Universal Records, VH1, Molson Beer, The Discovery Channel, The Sundance Channel, Bad Boy Entertainment, HD Net, Videofashion, E! Entertainment Television, FHM Magazine, RDF Media, Virgin Records, The Sugar Hill Gang, The Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce, Bimini Bay Resort, The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, The Bahamen, S-Curve Records, Volvo, Malik Yoba, Keo Films, Mardi Gras Casino, BTC, The Marley Resort, and his own television show, Electric Air.

Aside from motion pictures, Smith is also an accomplished photographer who has photographed significant portraits of Presidents, celebrities, musicians and models for album covers, books and magazines. Many of these photographs have been shown in museums and are in national and international collections of photography throughout the world. Smith has produced a series of photographs of Lenny Kravitz; Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush; the Bahamen (Who Let The Dogs Out); Johnny Rotten (of the Sex Pistols); Rita Marley, Philip Michael Thomas (of Miami Vice); Speech (of Arrested Development) and Notch (of Born Jamericans). Smith has also photographed album covers for Joss Stone, Susan Cagle, The Bahamen and Nathan Stone. Recently Smith has produced award winning documentaries and a suite of photographs of the American painter, Jonathan Green. These remarkable images and documentary have been featured in a series of selected museum exhibitions worldwide.

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