About Kira
Kira Isfan-Smith is a professional makeup artist with a focus on special effects and beauty for photoshoots and film. She is based in Los Angeles.
She has been working in the field for over 10 years, starting with special effects makeup at various Halloween haunts and eventually progressing to over 50 films, music videos and photoshoots.
She recently obtained a Diploma at Cinema Makeup School and an Associate Degree in Cosmetology from Santa Monica College (California), and has taken a number of special effects courses to develop her craft and she is now working professionally as Makeup Artist out of her base in Los Angeles.
View Resume (PDF): Kira isfan-Smith CV
Contact:
kira.isfan@gmail.com
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Work Experience Highlights:
Dipsomaniac – Head Makeup artist
- Official Selection at the 2023 Oscar-Qualifying LA Shorts
- Official Selection at the 2023 Picture’s Up! Film Festival
Arabian Alien – head makeup artist
- Sundance Film Festival 2020 – Official Selection (I attended the event in Park City, Utah
- Atlanta Film Festival – Winner of Best Narrative Short category
- In consideration for Academy Awards 2021 – Best Live Action Short Film category
Polly Pocket – head makeup artist
- Rieti Sabina Film Festival 2019 – Official Selection
- Kaleidoscope LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2019 – Winner Emerging Artist Award
- Short + Sweet Film Festival- Hollywood 2019 – Winner Honorable Mention
- Phlegraean film festival 2019 – Finalist
A Rodeo Film
- AFI Tops DGA’s 25th Annual Student Film Awards – Won Best Student Film 2019
- GI Film Festival – Official Selection
- Streaming on MAX
Complete Movie, Photo Shoot, Music Video List (chronological order):
- Steam
- Me again
- Festival ready
- Stones
- Noise
- Helpless
- Boondax
- Kerosene
- Mr. Darkness
- Dream Video
- La prima Volta
- Heckedy Peg
- Humanitarian (music video)
- Luce
- Mermaid (special effects photo shoot)
- A Rodeo film
- Blue Tiles
- Calypso
- Pigs in the Sea
- Presents
- Broken
- Florence
- Narrative ads
- Arabian Alien
- Junoon
- El Leon
- The bomb
- Sari not Sari
- Pilot
- Hysteria
- Killer Queen
- Madison reed ad (narrative ads)
- Try harder (music video)
- Chic blushing bride (photo shoot)
- White Eyes
- True Criminal
- Brady Campaign
- Band of Souls
- Winter of ‘79
- Buried
- In my Dreams you’re Sorry
- Bye, Son
- Shadows in the Mirror
- Dipsomaniac
- Are You Still There
- Champagne Spec ad
- Opaque Buckets