Marco  Williams

Marco Williams (Director) is an award-winning filmmaker. He has been nominated three times for the Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize. He has spent his entire film career exploring the question of injustice. He is a filmmaker whose films unmask the complexities of the human condition. A reviewer of his films shared: “You make films about the stories we prefer to keep hidden.”

His credits include: Murders that Matter (2023), A New Greenbook, (2022), Tulsa Burning: The 1921 RaceMassacre (2021), Crafting an Echo(2018), Lonnie Holley: The Truth of the Dirt (2017), Tell Them We AreRising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (2017), The Black Fives (2014), TheUndocumented (2013), Inside the New Black Panthers (2009), Banished (2007), Freedom Summer (2006), I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education (2004), MLK Boulevard: The ConcreteDream (2003), Two Towns of Jasper(2002), In Search of Our Fathers (1992), From Harlem to Harvard(1982).

Williams films have screened at festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Hot Docs, Full Frame and Toronto, and been broadcast on PBS, History Channel, NationalGeographic, and Discovery. Internationally they have screened on the BBC, The CBC, ABC, and other countries.

His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a George Foster Peabody Award, the Beacon Award, Alfred I duPont Silver Baton, Pan African Film Festival Outstanding Documentary Award, Full Frame Documentary Festival Spectrum Award, National Association of Black Journalists First Place Salute to Excellence Award, and 2023 Emmy nomination forTulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre.

Williams received a B.A. from Harvard University, in Visual and Environmental Studies, a Master of Arts degree from UCLA in Afro-American Studies and a Master of Fine Arts in UCLA’s ProducingProgram. Williams is a Professor at Northwestern University in the MFA in Documentary Media Program.