Hakeem Smith

Bradley MadBrad Smith has been working in the independent film industry since 1991. Early in his career he worked on such projects as Oprah Winfrey's television movie, There Are No Children Here (1993) and Nike/Michael Jordan's Kilroy commercial spots, in extras coordinating. Being a stage actor and classical and madrigal singer as a child, contributed to relating to actors when the need for getting the right character inspiration for a part presented itself. Once MadBrad discovered his real talent and vision, he got more involved in the filmmaking and video production business. He worked Second Unit on The Watcher (2000), starring Keanu Reeves and James Spader and went on to work with well-known video director Marc Klasfeld on R&B artist Dave Hollister's "One Woman Man" music video and recently on Lil Bow Wows' "Thank You" music video. He also worked with director Paul Hunter on Michael Jordan's new Nike line spots titled "Much Respect". After he directed Soldier, a music video for R&B artist Tina Moore. He went on to direct the music video, "Breath Again" for newcomer Ren, which was named, by The UrbanNetwork, the #1 most added urban video in the country for the week of February 23, 2001. MadBrad also worked as first assistant director on a myriad of independent films. One such film, One Week (2000), directed by Carl Seaton won the Grand Jury Award at the Urbanworld Film Festival in 2000. MadBrads' 12-minute short film Restore (2001), was accepted to Urbanworld Film Festival 2001 and gained attention for one of his first films as writer, producer, and director. The film stars Max Julien and Marc MDoc Williams. March of 2002 brought Russell Simmons' Simmons Lathan Media Group together with MadBrad to secure the worldwide Internet distribution of "Restore". MadBrad went on as first assistant director for the Chicago portion of the Emmy winning season 6 of The Amazing Race, and for Jeff Garlin's (of "Daddy Daycare" and "Curb your Enthusiasm") I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006). MadBrad Productions is (July 2007) currently shooting footage for Kendall Gill. This documentary will encompass an in-depth look at his trip into the professional boxing ring, and back to the NBA.