When you work with Taste, you get us: two filmmakers who fell in love over a shared passion for great storytelling.
From our backgrounds in feature film and television production, we work with great brands to create beautiful films that deeply resonate with people. Not just any-old films, but films that people actually love to watch.
Through our initiative, Inclusively Made, we are exceptionally proud to be global pioneers in inclusive production. Our vision is to see inclusion become business as usual in production, creating meaningful career pathways for people with disability both in front and behind the camera.
Henry Smith and Genevieve Clay-Smith
Taste Creative Founders
When you work with Taste, you get us: two filmmakers who fell in love over a shared passion for great storytelling.
From our backgrounds in feature film and television production, we work with great brands to create beautiful films that deeply resonate with people. Not just any-old films, but films that people actually love to watch.
Through our initiative, Inclusively Made, we are exceptionally proud to be global pioneers in inclusive production. Our vision is to see inclusion become business as usual in production, creating meaningful career pathways for people with disability both in front and behind the camera.
Henry Smith and Genevieve Clay-Smith
Taste Creative Founders
Henry Smith
CEO & Co-founder
Henry is an award winning film Producer and Director, working across entertainment and commercial production. He collaborates with a wide range of clients including P&O Cruises, National Geographic, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Sesame Street, ABC, Unilever and Google.
As a passionate champion of the inclusion of people living with disability in film production, he is the founder of Inclusively Made, the fast becoming global standard of inclusive filmmaking in both commercial and long-form production.
Henry is also the proud author of How to Jump Without a Parachute; A Journey to Lead with Purpose in Work and Life.
Genevieve Clay-Smith
Director & Co-founder
Genevieve is a writer and director who has won over fifty awards, nationally & internationally for directing and facilitating inclusively made films. Her projects have been screened at the United Nations, various Oscar Qualifying film festivals and have been used as part of the Australian High School Curriculum. She is an advocate and international speaker on the topic of inclusion in the film industry.
As co-founder of Bus Stop Films, Genevieve’s work has pioneered change in the film industry when it comes to authentic casting and inclusion in the filmmaking practice, evidenced in the 500 (and counting) employment and work experience placements on professional film sets for people living with intellectual disability.
The Taste Team
Awards
Mumbrella Production Company of the Year Finalist
Telstra Business Women’s National Emerging Leader
Financial Review Top 100 Women of Influence
Optus Media and Advertising Business of the Year
Mumbrella 30 Under 30
Women’s Weekly Woman of the Future Award
B&T Women in Media Award
NSW Young Australian of the Year
Westpac and Financial Review 100 Women of Influence
Tropfest Best Film & Best Male Actor
Our Ecosystem
Inclusively Made
The global standard certification for inclusion in film, television and video production
Bus Stop Films
Accessible film school teaching adults with disability and others from marginalised communities
Inclusive Film Production
People with disability make up 20% of our global population, yet we are a long way from seeing this diversity reflected in film, television and online. That’s why through the production of all of our projects, we create pathways for people with disability to gain professional experience in front and behind the camera.
We are exceptionally proud that all Taste Creative productions are eligible to gain Inclusively Made certification, the global standard of inclusion in production.
