Roger Ross Williams

Roger Ross Williams

Historia

Roger Ross Williams is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Oscar, with his short film Music by Prudence

Perfil

Roger Ross Williams

Películas

The Battle for Laikipia
Executive Producer
The stakes escalate in a longstanding conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, as unresolved historical injustices and the impact of climate change come to the forefront.
Marcados al nacer
Producer
Las raíces y evolución de los conceptos racistas en Estados Unidos para comprender la sociedad actual.
Marcados al nacer
Director
Las raíces y evolución de los conceptos racistas en Estados Unidos para comprender la sociedad actual.
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
Producer
Cuenta la extraordinaria historia de Donna Summer a través de un rico archivo compuesto por extractos de películas inéditas, videos caseros, fotografías, escritos, audios personales y otras grabaciones que abarcan la vida de una de las artistas más icónicas de todos los tiempos. Dirigido por Roger Ross Williams y la hija de Summer, Brooklyn Sudano.
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
Director
Cuenta la extraordinaria historia de Donna Summer a través de un rico archivo compuesto por extractos de películas inéditas, videos caseros, fotografías, escritos, audios personales y otras grabaciones que abarcan la vida de una de las artistas más icónicas de todos los tiempos. Dirigido por Roger Ross Williams y la hija de Summer, Brooklyn Sudano.
Cassandro
Screenplay
Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the ‘exotico’ character Cassandro, the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre.’ In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life.
Cassandro
Director
Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the ‘exotico’ character Cassandro, the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre.’ In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life.
Ben Crump: El abogado de los afroamericanos
Producer
Ben Crump, también conocido como el «abogado negro estadounidense», muestra el lado más íntimo de su vida como hombre de familia y defensor de los derechos civiles.
Maestro de la Luz
Producer
George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison, travels to his hometown to paint his family members. Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life.
Between the World and Me
Executive Producer
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion
Executive Producer
The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion highlights the hidden female figures that have curated and shaped hip-hop’s dynamic streetwear and ultimately swayed the entire fashion industry.
After Maria
Executive Producer
Desplazadas por el huracán María, tres puertorriqueñas y sus familias se enfrentan a un futuro incierto en Nueva York cuando la asistencia de vivienda llega a su fin.
El Teatro Apollo
Co-Producer
Una mirada a la historia del famoso Teatro Apollo en Harlem, Nueva York. El Apollo sirvió como trampolín de lanzamiento de numerosos artistas y leyendas como Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, y muchas más.
El Teatro Apollo
Writer
Una mirada a la historia del famoso Teatro Apollo en Harlem, Nueva York. El Apollo sirvió como trampolín de lanzamiento de numerosos artistas y leyendas como Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, y muchas más.
El Teatro Apollo
Director
Una mirada a la historia del famoso Teatro Apollo en Harlem, Nueva York. El Apollo sirvió como trampolín de lanzamiento de numerosos artistas y leyendas como Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, y muchas más.
Traveling While Black
Director
An immersive virtual reality documentary experience about the risks faced by blacks on the road in mid 2Oth Century America, and the safe spaces as listed in the famous guide, The Green Book, where they could eat and sleep.
Take Back the Harbor
Director
On New York's Governor's Island, an unprecedented program has the ambitious goal of restoring oysters and their environmental benefits back to New York Harbor. This documentary highlights the teenagers at a public high school that teaches stewardship of the waterways alongside math and English.
American Jail
Screenplay
In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at work in America's prison system.
American Jail
Producer
In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at work in America's prison system.
American Jail
Director
In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at work in America's prison system.
The Rachel Divide
Executive Producer
Rachel Dolezal became infamous when she was unmasked as a white woman passing for black so thoroughly that she had become the head of her local N.A.A.C.P. chapter. This portrait cuts through the very public controversy to reveal Dolezal’s motivations.
Land of the Lost Sidekicks
Director
A short, bringing all of the side kick characters in Walt Disney's animated films expressing their importance.
Life, Animated
Producer
Owen Suskind es un niño normal hasta que cumple tres años. Entonces empieza un retroceso en su desarrollo. Lo que empieza siendo una sospecha por parte de los padres se acaba convirtiendo en una realidad desesperada. Owen es autista. Y deja de hablar. Y se desconecta de la realidad. Lo único que lo mantiene tranquilo es ver películas de dibujos de Disney con su hermano grande. Cuando los padres empiezan a perder la esperanza de que el niño recupere el habla, de repente, un día, expresa una realidad a partir de una frase que les es familiar. Se trata de una frase sacada de una película de las que el niño ve. Los padres descubren así que su hijo solo se puede comunicar a partir del mundo ficticio que ha construido en su cabeza, basado en las cintas de Disney. Se abre un camino de esperanza que irá mucho más allá de lo que podían imaginar.
Life, Animated
Director
Owen Suskind es un niño normal hasta que cumple tres años. Entonces empieza un retroceso en su desarrollo. Lo que empieza siendo una sospecha por parte de los padres se acaba convirtiendo en una realidad desesperada. Owen es autista. Y deja de hablar. Y se desconecta de la realidad. Lo único que lo mantiene tranquilo es ver películas de dibujos de Disney con su hermano grande. Cuando los padres empiezan a perder la esperanza de que el niño recupere el habla, de repente, un día, expresa una realidad a partir de una frase que les es familiar. Se trata de una frase sacada de una película de las que el niño ve. Los padres descubren así que su hijo solo se puede comunicar a partir del mundo ficticio que ha construido en su cabeza, basado en las cintas de Disney. Se abre un camino de esperanza que irá mucho más allá de lo que podían imaginar.
blackface
Director
A week before the Sinterklaas festivities on December 5, global news channel CNN is digging into the Zwarte Piet controversy with a short documentary. Blackface was made by Oscar-winning documentary maker Roger Ross Williams who said his friends in America had been shocked the first time they saw a photograph of Sinterklaas’ helper.
Blackface
Self
Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams tries to understand why the notoriously liberal Dutch dress in blackface during the annual holiday of Sinterklaas.
God Loves Uganda
Producer
A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.
God Loves Uganda
Writer
A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.
God Loves Uganda
Director
A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.
Music by Prudence
Director
Music by Prudence tells a self-empowering story of one young woman's struggle who, together with her band, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds and, in her own voice conveys to the world that disability does not mean inability. In addition to its sheer emotional punch, Music by Prudence has become the cornerstone of an advocacy campaign and has been embraced by the UN, Human Rights Watch and the disability community as an unprecedented portrayal advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities. Prudences poignant, inspiring and irreverent message of hope has received an amazing response from press and audiences all across North America, and has won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and several other awards as it continues drawing in more audiences.
The Empire of Ebony
Producer
A documentary film following the rise of Ebony and Jet and their growth into a brand with a readership base in the millions which has had an undeniable effect on American culture.