Madeleine Grace Smith

CINEYOUTH FILM FESTIVAL I LOVE YOU 🎬 Thank you @chifilmfest for presenting Appealing Me and hosting such an inspiring and uplifting film festival for young filmmakers. From volunteer at 18 ➡️ filmmaker at 22, it has been a dream ✨

RIP 2025, I’ll miss you 🫶 So deeply grateful for this year! I finished my BFA Directing Thesis, @appealingmefilm 🎬, had my dream Internship with Monkeypaw Productions, explored LA with the best travel buddy, @sophiemorgan1914 , and finished college with my Semester in LA family. I graduated (!!), worked on my first professional film, saw my name on the big screen for the first time, turned 22 🎂, started working with my creative family, @properstudios.co 💗, went to Chicago with my wives @isabel.franchesca & @shayle_cruz 😘, and played “V” in @melancholykings recent music vid. Big Energy for 2026: F*ck ICE, be kind, and love your community

Pieces of the last two years on film! 📸 Some of my favorite memories just got developed thanks to the absolutely beautiful work of @gelatinlabs ! A lot has happened the last two years, but these photos bring me right back to these memories and make me feel so lucky to have experienced it all with the people I love! They remind me of going to Disneyland with my best friend Elisha in April, having my last day of college at Sunset Las Palmas in LA / graduating in May, and exploring London & Paris with my parents before starting my Junior year of college 🫶🏻

Words will never be enough to describe what these last 4 years have meant to me!! I have always believed in fate. I’ve believed that the people who are meant to be in your life will find you, grow with you, and love you dearly when the time is right. When I clicked “Accept” on Columbia I could only hope that I would meet some of these people, but I never knew how kind the world was to bring me all of you! To Isa, my roommates (Shayle, Liv, Genna, Sophie, Emma, and Reese), my DIRECTORS, the Appealing Me Cast and Crew, the Bitchin Girls, the Career Center angels, the entire film program, my professors, the Semester in LA Cohort, and so many more people, you have all grown with me, shaped me, inspired me, and taught me what true friendship means. I have loved you all since before I knew you and will love you much longer than I am alive. Thank you for the art we have made together and more importantly thank you for the love you have given me!! Even though we have graduated, you are all stuck with me forever!! Here’s to 1,000 more years!! Best, Mads 📸 @haleypatt & @mshepsmith

My Moonglow Summer

There is nothing I love more than traveling with you!! 💗💗💗

Part 1 of College done, 3 more years to go!

Heather Got Married!!!!!!!! #beautifulbride Ignore the moody first photo, this was the happiest day! #2nuns

…You’re still here? It’s over! - Ferris Bueller

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