Grace Rebecca Smith was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and grew up in Northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. She started film-making when she was twelve, and after seven years of making short films, she attended Vancouver Film School and received a diploma in Film Production.

Grace’s passion is in making films that show the people behind the statistics. Numbers can enthrall us, but only to a certain extent. It is the stories of these men, women, and children who engage us and help us understand the “why” behind the numbers. Grace’s goal is to share these stories with Canadians, so that our communities, our society, and our country can grow stronger – together. Grace hopes that her documentaries will help to break down walls that divide us. She hopes that telling stories of some of these marginalized Canadians will help us to understand each other, and to understand the stories that make us who we are today.

Grace currently studies at the University of New Brunswick.