The Filmmakers
Jeffrey Williams - Producer/Director
Jeffrey S. Williams is the producer/director/screenwriter of the award-winning short film For Dinner, the St. Paul Film Festival’s winner for Best Horror Short Film. For Dinner has been shown in festivals around the world and has over 3 million views online. Jeffrey directed the award-winning documentary feature Force of Blue which won Best Feature at the Hamilton New York International Film Festival, Best Director at the Dream Manila Film Festival, and Best Sports Film at the Bangkok Film Awards. Jeffrey wrote, produced, and directed the well-received film 5ive Man Confession, which has played in numerous film festivals around the country; as well as, the short film Check It Up – To Whom It May Concern, based on the feature film Check It Up, currently in development. He is a graduate of Colgate University and the Howard University School of Communication with an MFA in Film. While at Howard, he won the prestigious School of Communication’s Paul Robeson Award for Best Script and Best Producer. After finishing film school Jeffrey returned to Minneapolis and was the winner of two significant filmmaking fellowships – The Bush Artist Fellowship for Screenwriting and Independent Feature Project-North/McKnight Artist Fellowship.