PAMELA JAYE SMITH is a Mythologist, Author, international Consultant/Speaker, and award-winning Producer/Director with over 35 years experience in features, TV, music videos, commercials, documentaries, corporate and military films, games, and web series in Hollywood and around the world. Pamela founded MYTHWORKS a consulting and information resource offering Applied Mythology for individuals, organizations, and the media arts. She teaches and consults on fiction and non-fiction, writes for others, coaches writers and actors, and helps individuals discover and use their personal archetypes. Smith authored "SHOW ME THE LOVE: All Kinds of Love for All Kinds of Stories", "THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE: Create Great Villains and Dangerous Situations", "INNER DRIVES: How to Write and Create Characters Using the [chakras] 8 Classic Centers of Motivation", "SYMBOLS.IMAGES.CODES: The Secret Language of Meaning in Media", and "BEYOND THE HERO'S JOURNEY: Other Powerful Mythic Themes".She was the mythologist interviewed on Fox's ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT Special Features and has appeared on national TV and radio programs as a mythology expert, including the "Forbidden Secrets" TV series. She was on-camera spokesperson for Microsoft's "Age of Mythology" on-line computer game and designed their "Which God Are You?" quiz.Pamela helps creative people enhance their stories and scripts with the power of myth using Themes, Archetypes, Symbols, and Imagery. Besides the standards of plot, structure, character and dialogue, she specializes in myth, metaphyics, the military, and Masonry. These classic story tools work for any style and any genre, in any stage of development -- plus, they're fun to use.Clients and credits include Microsoft, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, RAI-TV Rome, UCLA, USC Film School, American Film Institute, Natl. Film Institute of Denmark, LA and Marseille Webfests, Romance Writers of America, Pepperdine University, Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters, and various film festivals and story conferences. Others include the American Assoc. of University Women, Junior ROTC, General Motors, Boeing, Hyundai, Hughes Space & Communications, and the U.S. Army.She is Past President of the Pan Pacific S.E. Asia Women's Assoc. LA Chapter, the Boeing Workforce Development Think Tank, the U.S. Army Advanced Warfighting Working Group, the Entertainment Industries Council, the China Exploration & Research Society and California Emergency Response Team. Various projects have taken Smith to the Arctic, the Andes, SE Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. She has filmed on the largest off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, slept in grass huts and eaten guinea pig under Ecuador's highest volcano, caught her own sushi in the Leyte Gulf, and rappelled into the jungles of Mindanao searching for lost WWII Japanese gold.Pamela is an avid reader, drives classic cars, and enjoys opera. A dilettante approach to sports has included surfing, skiing, snorkeling, flying, go-cart & auto racing, and driving an off-shore oil rig and an Army tank -- both under close supervision.Pamela is founder of MYTHWORKS www.mythworks.net, co-founder of Mythic Challenges: Create Stories that Change the World www.mythicchallenges.com and also of the Alpha Babe Academy www.alphababeacademy.com