Marco Williams
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Marco Williams is a
Banished (2007), directed and produced by Williams, tells the story of three American communities where 100 years ago white residents forced thousands of black families to flee their homes. The film documents black descendants as they return to confront their shocking histories. The film was awarded the Knight Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Features at the Miami International Film Festival and the Full Frame Documentary Festival Spectrum Award.[2]
Williams' film Freedom Summer (2006), won a primetime Emmy Award for the series: Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America.
Williams' film Two Towns of Jasper (co-directed by Whitney Dow) received the 2004 George Foster Peabody Award[3] and the 2004 Alfred I duPont Silver Baton.[4] It is the winner of the 2002 Pan African Film Festival Outstanding Documentary Award, the Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival Silver Award for Best International Documentary (2002); it is also the recipient of the 2002 DoubleTake/Full Frame grand prize: The Center For Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award, and the winner of the 2002 Independent Feature Project Third Annual Anthony Radziwill Documentary Achievement Award.[5] Two Towns of Jasper was broadcast on POV on PBS, the film and the directors were featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline with Ted Koppel, and the film was the catalyst for a live town hall meeting—“America in Black and White”, anchored by Ted Koppel.[6]
In 1994, Williams and six other young filmmakers, including
He graduated from Harvard University and UCLA School of Film.[7]
"The Undocumented" (2013)
Supported by ITVS and the Ford Foundation, The Undocumented tells the stories of migrants who have died in the Arizona desert, and follows them on their long journey home. The film is woven from multiple narrative threads. In Arizona, it depicts the efforts of the Pima County Medical Examiner and the Mexican Consulate of Tucson to name unidentified dead border crossers with the ultimate goal of returning them to their families. It also follows
Filmography
- Banished (2007)
- Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Freedom Summer (2006)
- MLK Boulevard (2003)
- Two Towns of Jasper (2002)
- In Search of Our Fathers (1992)
- Without a Pass (1991) [8]
Teaching
Williams has been a full-time professor for twenty-five years. He currently teaches at Northwestern University. [1] Prior to joining Northwestern he was a professor at NYU for twenty-years. Prior to teaching at NYU, he taught for four years at North Carolina School of the Arts.
References
- ^ "Marco Williams on IMDb, awards". Retrieved 2006-12-21.
- ^ "Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2006) - IMDb". Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
- ^ "The Peabody Awards | an International Competition for Electronic Media, honoring achievement in Television, Radio, Cable and the Web | Administered by University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication". Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ "DuPont". Archived from the original on 2010-01-25. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ "Two Towns of Jasper: Press". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ ernestosilva (2015-06-30). "Press Room". www.cpb.org. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
- ^ "Marco Williams | Northwestern School of Communication". 30 September 2020.
- ^ "Marco Williams on IMDb". Retrieved 2006-12-21.
External links
- [2] Northwestern University Bio
- Marco Williams at IMDb
- BBC Interview
- Countdown to Sundance 2007 podcast interview with Marco Williams