Megan S. Smith, M.S.
Director, Producer, Writer
Megan S. Smith, M.S., has been involved in the arts since a young girl, growing up in Falls Church, Va. After earning a B.A. in biology at The Colorado College, she started down a career path as professional musician for a decade with sister Debi. The Smith Sisters teamed up in the recording studio with Doc and Merle Watson, Sam Bush and Mark O’Connor, and landed a deal with Flying Fish/Rounder Records.
Returning to the left side of her brain (her father is a mechanical engineer and fighter pilot in the Korean War), Smith took a job as congressional liaison for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and worked on her master’s degree in biology with thesis work in molecular genetics.
After five years, Smith struck out on her own, heading up MSS Consultants, LLC, in Washington, D.C., where she lobbied Congress on biomass energy issues. She also directed the American/National Bioenergy Associations.
Smith began writing screenplays on the side, largely about a conspiracy she witnessed on Capitol Hill. But soon tragedy struck: Her husband — a senior Senate staffer for 36 years — was diagnosed with cancer and died within a year following radiation and only two rounds of chemotherapy.
To work through her grief Smith went back to the other half of her heart which was in the arts (her mother is an artist), and began painting large acrylics professionally. Following her cathartic tact, she slowly transitioned back into screenplays, writing a light-hearted animation based on environmental issues affecting the world’s ecosystem.
Living in an endemic Lyme disease area, Smith was stricken by the spirochete — yet was told by her Alexandria doctor that “Lyme doesn’t exist in Virginia.” She soon went into chronic Lyme. Eighteen months later, a Johns Hopkins Hospital specialist deemed her incurable — and so her investigation of Lyme disease began.
The Washington Post hired Smith to write an article on the inaccuracy of Lyme testing. Concurrently, she wrote a three-part series on Lyme for The Rappahannock News — and was the first to uncover the vast underreporting of Lyme by doctors to State health agencies across the U.S.
The following year, there was a dramatic increase in reported Lyme disease incidence, which has been rising exponentially ever since. Then, Smith found others who had cured themselves of Lyme using alternative therapies and was soon on her way to healing.
Now convinced that alternative medicine may have cured or at least extended time with her husband, Smith pondered how she could help others avoid conventional medicine under circumstances when the quality of life would be drastically diminished.
It was after she ran into a documentary filmmaker that she realized her next calling in life: spreading the word of non-conventional medical therapies via the silver screen.
Smith started up WayMark Productions, LLC, in 2016, and now travels the U.S. and abroad filming WayMark’s documentaries in hopes of creating works that help others.
Smith’s first short documentary, “bOObs: The War on Women’s Breasts,” won numerous film festival awards. Her 2020 feature by the same name will be distributed worldwide by Los Angeles-based Cinema Libre Studio. It is dedicated to her three dear friends whose lives were cut short by breast cancer.
Her second feature on alternative cancer therapies, “A New Standard of Care,” will be dedicated to her late husband Proctor and is slated for release in 2021.
