Roger Ross Williams

Roger Ross Williams

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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

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Roger Ross Williams

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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.
처음부터 낙인은 찍혀 있었다
Producer
빛나는 수상 기록의 베스트셀러를 바탕으로 제작한 다큐멘터리. 독창적인 애니메이션과 전문가의 통찰을 통해 미국에 존재하는 인종차별적 사고의 역사를 알아본다.
처음부터 낙인은 찍혀 있었다
Director
빛나는 수상 기록의 베스트셀러를 바탕으로 제작한 다큐멘터리. 독창적인 애니메이션과 전문가의 통찰을 통해 미국에 존재하는 인종차별적 사고의 역사를 알아본다.
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
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The extraordinary story of disco queen Donna Summer through a rich archive of unpublished film excerpts, home video, photographs, artwork, writings, personal audio and other recordings that span the life of one of the most iconic performers ever to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.
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
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The extraordinary story of disco queen Donna Summer through a rich archive of unpublished film excerpts, home video, photographs, artwork, writings, personal audio and other recordings that span the life of one of the most iconic performers ever to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.
카산드로
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.
카산드로
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.
민권을 변호하다: 벤 크럼프
Producer
'미국 흑인들의 법무부 장관'으로 불리는 벤 크럼프. 가족을 끔찍이 아끼는 한 남자이자 민권 운동가로 살아가는 그의 삶을 들여다본다.
Master of Light
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.
더 리믹스: 힙합 X 패션
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.
애프터 마리아
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.
아폴로
Co-Producer
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
아폴로
Writer
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
아폴로
Director
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
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.
레이첼, 하얀 흑인
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.
Land of the Lost Sidekicks
Director
A short, bringing all of the side kick characters in Walt Disney's animated films expressing their importance.
인생을 애니메이션처럼
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.
인생을 애니메이션처럼
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.
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.