Jono Smith

Jono Smith was 14 when he won a starring role as teenager Ned Poindexter in 1950s era coming of age movie The Scarecrow. After leaving school, Smith joined TVNZ and became a camera assistant. Since relocating to England in 1993 he has shot a raft of television projects, short films, and seven features, and worked in more than 40 countries. In 2017 he directed his first feature, road movie Pylon.

Every so often you are operating the camera, and at that moment everything comes together — the directing, script, design, acting, plus your part: the lighting and photography. You're inside the film capturing gold. Jono Smith