Roger Ross Williams
Producer/Director
Roger Ross Williams directed and produced Music by Prudence, which won the 2010 Academy Award® for documentary short subject and was broadcast on HBO. He is the first African American to win an Oscar® for directing and producing a film, short or feature. Williams began his career producing political satire for Comedy Central and Michael Moore’s Emmy award winning series TV Nation. He went on to work as a broadcast journalist for ABC, NBC, MSNBC and CNN. He has also produced and directed numerous primetime specials for PBS, ABC, CBS, Sundance Channel, and New York Times Television. He has won numerous awards including a NAMIC Vision Award and the National Headliner for Best Human Interest Feature documentary. Williams has received grants from the Sundance Documentary Fund, The Tribeca Documentary Fund, The Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Cinereach, The Eastmond Fund, New York State Council of the Arts and The Fledgling Fund. Currently Williams has several projects in development, including a feature length documentary entitled GOD LOVES UGANDA and a narrative film on the African American Baptist church, called Black Sheep. Mr. Williams divides his time between New York and Amsterdam.
