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By Cole Smith

After ending her marriage to a top ranked NASCAR driver, Melissa must rebuild her career as a driver manager with a reckless newcomer.

An excerpt from this project will be performed as part of Screenwriting Night on Friday, April 23 at 7:00pm ET

Cole Smith is a filmmaker from Charlotte, NC. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and served as an Air Force officer from 2012 to 2017. During that time, he worked as a nuclear weapons operator — working nearly 300 shifts in underground missile silos across Wyoming and Nebraska where he oversaw the targeting, maintenance, and security of up to 50 nuclear weapons.

Cole is the recipient of the 2021 Sloan Screenplay award for his feature script “Damascus,” which tells the true story of a 1980 Titan Nuclear Missile explosion.

Cole is the lead Virtual Reality director at the Emmy nominated VR production company Moth+Flame. He also works closely with Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit founded by Actor Adam Driver that brings world class story telling to military audiences.