"Searching for Shadow" is the WINNER of the Golden Pen Script Awards, Oniros Film Awards, New York Independent Film Awards, Melbourne International Screenplay Awards, the Tokyo Film and Screenplay Awards and Brooklyn's Nocturna Film Festival and a Nominee / Official Selection in festivals in 13 countries on 4 continents.

"Smalley has crafted something genuinely rare: a screenplay that honours the full complexity of grief's topography whilst insisting on the possibility—however fragile, however hard-won—of survival, transformation, and meaningful creative work emerging from life's most shattering losses. This is screenwriting as psychoanalytic excavation, formally audacious yet deeply humane, and destined to become essential viewing for anyone who's ever searched for something they'll never find." Lonely Wolf Journal, 2026 Edition

"The Proxy Mom," is the WINNER of a 2025 New York Independent Film Award and an Oniros Film Award for Best Series Pilot Script, and a semi-finalist in New York and Melbourne.

"An ensemble of intelligent characters that can appeal to wide audiences ... the leads are engaging ... a premise worthy of a series." Table Read My Screenplay

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