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Marco Williams is a documentary filmmaker and professor of film production at Northwestern University. His films have received several awards, including the Gotham Documentary Achievement Award for Two Towns of Jasper , and he has been nominated three times for the Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize.
Marco Williams is an award winning filmmaker whose films unmask and uncover the complexities of the human condition. “To challenge the status quo, to challenge an audience’s comfort level, to interrogate and investigate our collective psyche as humans.
Oct 10, 2018 · Award-winning documentary filmmaker and Northwestern University professor Marco Williams has been elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, best known for its annual Academy Awards, the Oscars.
There's a moment in Marco Williams' 1992 film, In Search of Our Fathers, that changed my life. I was a photographer when I saw the film. I had just finished a series on Latino and Asian immigrants in the South and was hesitantly toying with the idea of turning it into a film.
Marco Williams. 1956-Filmmaker. Marco Williams's documentaries offer an unflinchingly look in the face of hard issues like racism, injustice, and the black American experience.
His prize-winning films, “Banished,” “Freedom Summer” and “Two Towns of Jasper” focus on issues of race and class, concepts that he was introduced to in his childhood. Williams recently arrived in Doha to teach screenwriting and directing at Northwestern University in Qatar for the fall semester.
Marco Williams is an award-winning director of documentaries on topics such as civil rights, education, and immigration. He teaches at Northwestern University and has a background in Afro-American Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies.
