Angel Kristi Williams
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Biography
Angel Kristi Williams is an award winning filmmaker born and raised in West Baltimore, Maryland. She was 8 years old when her late father gave her a VHS camcorder which sparked her love for the medium. After studying visual art, photography and experimental film, Angel developed a voice that embraces silence and the power of the image to tell a story. Her feature directorial debut Really Love, produced by MACRO, won the Special Jury Recognition for Acting for co-stars Kofi Siriboe and Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing at SXSW. The film then played as part of AFI Fest’s Special Presentations to much acclaim. Angel is a Sundance Institute Momentum Fellow as well as a Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow, where she was the recipient of their Sony Pictures Diversity Fellowship. Angel won an NAACP Image Award for directing Colin in Black and White, her first episode of television. She directed an episode of Naomi for CW and will later helm the season 2 opener of Cherish the Day for OWN. She splits her time between Baltimore and Los Angeles and holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia College Chicago. Source: http://www.angelkristiwilliams.com/about/
Known For
Aster Calyx and Halan Kai Nielsen are inextricably drawn to Beacon 23. Navigating one threat after another, they unravel the beacon’s mysteries, just in time to face their most powerful enemy.
Beacon 23
The life of athlete Colin Kaepernick and his adoptive parents as they navigate the challenges of raising a black son in a white family and community.
Colin in Black and White
Follow a teen girl’s journey from her small northwestern town to the heights of the multiverse. When a supernatural event shakes her hometown to the core, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins, and what she discovers will challenge everything we believe about our heroes
Naomi
A chronicle of the stirring relationship of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. The narrative will unfold to reveal significant moments in a relationship that compel us to hold true to the ones we love, from the extraordinary to the everyday.
Cherish the Day
Rose, in an assisted living facility, unexpectedly falls for another resident, Bea; but with her memory failing, she reflects on this love before she forgets entirely.
Care
A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.
Really Love
An elderly Chinese immigrant's cultural ignorance gets him in irreversible trouble in a public restroom. Despite his harmless intentions, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his behavior understood.
Touch
When Reagan, a fifteen-year-old sex worker, leaves her East Oakland group home, she is forced to redefine the concept of family in an unfamiliar landscape.
Reagan
A transgender teenager faces an unwanted pregnancy and risks losing everything he loves in order to live courageously.
Get the Life
When things in her house start to change, a delightfully curious young girl, Maya, senses that a monster may be the culprit. In an effort to protect her mother and grandmother, she takes the monster hunt into her own hands. She soon learns that, while the threat it poses may be real, the monster itself is more someone than something.
Firefly
In a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.
They Charge for the Sun
Alex, excited to have befriended the popular girl at school, will do anything to stay in her good graces. When her new friend wants to play house, Alex innocently plays along and develops feelings she doesn't understand.