Paul Smart worked as a writer and editor for over a dozen Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains regional publications in a career that spanned a third of a century. He has published three books: Rock & Woodstock, With Different Eyes: A Covid Waltz in Words and Images and Overlook: A Rock & Roll Fable. He currently lives in Guanajuato, Mexico with his wife Fawn and son Milo, where he is working on a number of film and library projects. Don Barry is his first feature film and has been totally self-financed.