Kevin Smith Biography (3)

Kevin Smith completes his New Jersey Chronicles with JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK, his fifth motion picture foray into the View Askew universe and the characters that were born in his 1994 debut, Clerks.

Clerks was a surprise critical and commercial hit that collected the Filmmakers Trophy Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival as well as the International Critics Week Award at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival that same year. With friend and producer Scott Mosier and their production company, View Askew, Smith has since continued to write and direct cutting edge independent film such as Mallrats and Chasing Amy, for which Smith won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Original Screenplay. In addition to his directing credits, Smith also co-executive produced with Mosier the Academy Award winning film Good Will Hunting.

Smith's fourth motion picture, Dogma, a satiric comedy parable about two fallen angels also featuring Jay and Silent Bob, was the second most successful independent film of 1999, behind The Blair Witch Project. The film garnered Smith another Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Smith also wrote and directed the animated version of Clerks, which aired on ABC-TV and is now available on DVD. An avid comic book fan, Smith is the proud owner of Jay and Bob's Comic Stash, a comic book haven located in Redbank, New Jersey. Kevin has written his own comic titles such as Jay & Silent Bob and Clerks: The Comic. Recently, Smith wrote a new version of the DC Comic Green Arrow, the first in a series of twelve, which sold out even before hitting comic book stores.

Among his other projects, Smith collaborated with indie film guru John Pierson on his book Spike. Mike. Slackers and Dvkes, a chronicle of the last ten years in the world of low/no budget film.

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