Roger Ross Williams
약력
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
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.
Producer
빛나는 수상 기록의 베스트셀러를 바탕으로 제작한 다큐멘터리. 독창적인 애니메이션과 전문가의 통찰을 통해 미국에 존재하는 인종차별적 사고의 역사를 알아본다.
Director
빛나는 수상 기록의 베스트셀러를 바탕으로 제작한 다큐멘터리. 독창적인 애니메이션과 전문가의 통찰을 통해 미국에 존재하는 인종차별적 사고의 역사를 알아본다.
Producer
The extraordinary story of disco queen Donna Summer through a rich archive of unpublished film excerpts, home video, photographs, artwork, writings, personal audio and other recordings that span the life of one of the most iconic performers ever to shake a room to its timbers. From her early career with Giorgio Moroder in Germany, to later years more focused on spirituality and family life as a shelter from troubles associated with both notoriety and intimate wounds, her story is all the more special for being told in the first person – both singular and plural.
Director
The extraordinary story of disco queen Donna Summer through a rich archive of unpublished film excerpts, home video, photographs, artwork, writings, personal audio and other recordings that span the life of one of the most iconic performers ever to shake a room to its timbers. From her early career with Giorgio Moroder in Germany, to later years more focused on spirituality and family life as a shelter from troubles associated with both notoriety and intimate wounds, her story is all the more special for being told in the first person – both singular and plural.
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.
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.
Producer
'미국 흑인들의 법무부 장관'으로 불리는 벤 크럼프. 가족을 끔찍이 아끼는 한 남자이자 민권 운동가로 살아가는 그의 삶을 들여다본다.
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.
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.
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.
Executive Producer
2017년 푸에르토리코를 덮친 허리케인 마리아. 갈 곳 잃은 난민들은 미국 연방 정부의 지원을 받는다. 하지만 지원 시한이 다하면서 이들은 또 길로 내몰릴 위기에 처한다.
Co-Producer
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
Writer
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
Director
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Executive Producer
혈통을 거부하고 흑인으로 살기를 선택한, 백인 여성 레이첼. '인종 전환주의'를 주장한 이유로 그녀의 삶은 논란에 휩싸인다. 그로 인해 180도 달라진 한 사람의 인생.
Director
A short, bringing all of the side kick characters in Walt Disney's animated films expressing their importance.
Producer
3살 때 말문을 닫은 소년 ‘오웬’은 몇 년 후 인어공주를 보며 다시 말을 하기 시작한다. 용기가 필요할 땐 헤라클레스, 친구를 원할 땐 정글북, 진짜 소년이 되고 싶을 땐 피노키오. 피터팬처럼 네버랜드에서 살길 꿈꾼 러블리 디즈니 덕후 ‘오웬’의 기적 같은 성장 스토리.
Director
3살 때 말문을 닫은 소년 ‘오웬’은 몇 년 후 인어공주를 보며 다시 말을 하기 시작한다. 용기가 필요할 땐 헤라클레스, 친구를 원할 땐 정글북, 진짜 소년이 되고 싶을 땐 피노키오. 피터팬처럼 네버랜드에서 살길 꿈꾼 러블리 디즈니 덕후 ‘오웬’의 기적 같은 성장 스토리.
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.
Self
Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams tries to understand why the notoriously liberal Dutch dress in blackface during the annual holiday of Sinterklaas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.