Marco Williams is a George Foster Peabody and Alfred I duPont Silver Baton award-winning documentary filmmaker.
His directing credits include The Undocumented, 2013 (Full Frame, HRWFF, Independent Lens); Inside the New Black Panthers, 2008 (Nat Geo); Banished 2007, (Independent Lens, Sundance, Fullframe, Miami International Film Festival); Freedom Summer 2006, (History Channel, Full Frame); I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education 2004, (Nickelodeon); MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream 2003, (DiscoveryTimes); Two Towns of Jasper 2002, (P.O.V., Sundance); Making Peace: Rebuilding our Communities 1995, (PBS); The Pursuit of Happiness: With Arianna Huffington 1994, (PBS); Without A Pass 1992, (Showtime, Sundance); In Search of Our Fathers 1991, (Frontline, Sundance, the Whitney Biennial); and From Harlem To Harvard 1982, (The Learning Channel).
Marco’s film awards include: Banished, the Knight Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the Miami International Film Festival and the Full Frame Documentary Festival Spectrum Award. Freedom Summer, Emmy Award for the series: Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America; I Sit Where I Want, the recipient of the 2005 Beacon Award; MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream; The National Association of Black Journalists First Place Salute to Excellence Award 2004.
Two Towns of Jasper, the 2004 George Foster Peabody Award and the 2004 Alfred I duPont Silver Baton. It is the winner of the 2002 Pan African Film Festival Outstanding Documentary Award, the Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival Silver Award for Best International Documentary (2002); it is also the recipient of the 2002 DoubleTake/Full Frame grand prize: The Center For Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award, and the winner of the 2002 Independent Feature Project Third Annual Anthony Radziwill Documentary Achievement Award. Two Towns of Jasper was broadcast on POV on PBS, the film and the directors were featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline with Ted Koppel, and the film was the catalyst for a live town hall meeting—“America in Black and White”, anchored by Ted Koppel.
Williams’ film, In Search of Our Fathers was awarded The Silver Apple at the National Educational Film and Video Festival. The film was broadcast on the PBS program “Frontline”. It was exhibited at festivals throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. It was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1996 “Black Male Exhibition, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, the Panorama section of the 1993 Berlin International Film Festival, the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, Cinema Du Reel, the Toronto Film Festival, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and the Bombay International Film Festival.
Williams received a B.A. from Harvard University, in Visual and Environmental Studies. He received a Master of Arts degree from UCLA in Afro-American Studies and a Master of Fine Arts also from UCLA in their Producer’s Program. He is the recipient of the Institute of American Cultures Research Grant (1998 & 1990), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, (1987) and a Creative Artists Program grant (1984).
