---
name: "Paki Smith"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paki-smith"
fi1m_id: "paki-smith"
imdb_id: "nm1156431"
tmdb_id: 12039
wikidata_id: "Q95219602"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "20 December 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-22T03:31:12.745551+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Paki Smith

## Identity

Paki Smith

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paki-smith
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paki-smith
- **IMDb ID:** nm1156431
- **TMDB ID:** 12039
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95219602
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95219602, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1156431/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12039

Production designer. Born 20 December 1963 in New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 20 December 1963, New Zealand
- **Active:** 2015–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Alan Moloney](https://film.one/person/alan-moloney.md), [Cillian Murphy](https://film.one/person/cillian-murphy.md), [Tim Mielants](https://film.one/person/tim-mielants.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 58 (1), 2020s 74 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 69 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $17m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95219602, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1156431/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12039

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Small Things Like These*](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md) (79)
- **Netflix:** [*Steve*](https://film.one/film/steve.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Paki Smith is a production designer and set decorator. Born in New Zealand on 20 December 1963, he trained at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and has worked extensively in film and television, initially as a set decorator on major productions.

His credits as production designer include *Free Fire* (2016), *Mary Shelley* (2017), *The Man Who Invented Christmas* (2017), *In Fabric* (2018), *The Turning* (2020), *Small Things Like These* (2024) and the series *Bodkin* (2024). Earlier set decoration work encompasses *Batman Begins* (2005), *The Dark Knight Rises* (2012), *John Carter* (2012) and *High-Rise* (2015).

*Sources: imdb.com, pakismith.onfabrik.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Steve* (2025), Fi1m 68, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/steve.md)
- *Small Things Like These* (2024), Fi1m 79, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md)
- *High-Rise* (2015), Fi1m 58, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/high-rise.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Desert Warrior* (2026), Production Design
- *Steve* (2025), Production Design — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/steve.md)
- *Small Things Like These* (2024), Production Design — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md)
- *Bodkin* (2024), series, Production Design
- *The Turning* (2020), Production Design
- *Sweetness in the Belly* (2019), Production Design
- *In Fabric* (2018), Production Design
- *The Man Who Invented Christmas* (2017), Production Design
- *Mary Shelley* (2017), Production Design
- *Free Fire* (2017), Production Design
- *High-Rise* (2015), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/high-rise.md)
- *Viva* (2015), Production Design
- *Dracula Untold* (2014), as Set Decoration
- *The Dark Knight Rises* (2012), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-dark-knight-rises.md)
- *John Carter* (2012), as Set Decoration
- *Eamon* (2009), Production Design
- *The Open Road* (2009), Production Design
- *Sleepwalking* (2008), Production Design
- *Batman Begins* (2005), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/batman-begins.md)
- *Veronica Guerin* (2003), as Set Decoration
- *God's Kitchen* (2003), Director
- *Sweety Barrett* (1999), Production Design
- *Walk the Blue Fields*, Production Design

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