Brian Carmody

Brian Carmody is a managing partner and co-founder along with Patrick Milling Smith of international production company SMUGGLER. It has offices in Los Angeles, New York and London. SMUGGLER has taken home the coveted Cannes Lions Grand Prix, the Palme d'Or, the Emmy, D&AD pencils as well as Sundance, London, Berlin and Venice Film Festival Awards.

A native of Skibbereen in County Cork, Ireland, Brian came to the US where he worked with Propaganda/Satellite Films for 7 years. “It was a great school, if you will, a school that was way ahead of it’s time for a TV commercial/MV production house that had a very forward yet confident vision for itself”. With that experience (and a fair amount of naivety) he took the next step forward to create a company that would continue in that tradition. In March 2001, SMUGGLER was founded with a roster that comprised of such visionary names as Brian Beletic, Ivan Zacharias, Neil Harris, David Frankham, Guy Shelmerdine and Adam Berg. This roster has since grown to represent a talented and impressive group of directors such as Randy Krallman, Ringan Ledwidge, Bennett Miller, Psyop, Tom Hooper, Henry Alex Rubin, Filip Engstrom, Jun Diaz, Chris Smith, Stylewar, Samir Mallal The Guard Brothers, Jon Watts, Renny Maslow, Jaron Albertin, Joshua Neal and James Marsh.

SMUGGLER recently formed a film and theatre division. Upcoming projects include a film adaptation of the Man Booker Prize winning novel The White Tiger, a film adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s play Becket, Redemption based on the hit French Thriller Rapt, the tennis comedy Breakpoint, Greetings from Tim Buckley, Flat Lake, Last Day Man, Black Crab, Five Lakes and The Princess and the Gangster. Also in development  is the film adaptation of A.M. Homes' novel This Book Will Save Your Life by Academy Award Nominated writer Will Davies and director Ivan Zacharias. Theatre projects include the Broadway production of Seminar starring Alan Rickman and the New York Theatre Workshop production of the Oscar winning musical Once on Broadway. Also in development is the stage production of The Kid Stays in the Picture based on the memoirs of legend Robert Evans.