Gregory Scott Williams, Jr.: “Tar Baby Jane”
Gregory Scott Williams, Jr. has written and directed several short films, including the documentary “Tar Baby Jane,” which received a 2014 Paul Robeson Award from the Newark Black Film Festival and was awarded grants from The Heinz Endowments, the Pittsburgh Foundation’s Multicultural Arts Initiative and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council; “Introducing August Wilson,” which was awarded grants from the Pittsburgh Foundation and Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and aired on PBS affiliate WQED as part of Filmmakers Corner in 2013; “Dance Chile,” which was nominated for a DGA African American Student Award for Directing; and “Sonny’s Blues,” an adaptation of the short story written by James Baldwin, which aired on ABC and CBS. His current feature screenplay, “Window Pains,” was awarded a 2014 Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments.
Greg has also produced a number of independent shorts, most notably “five deep breaths,” written & directed by Seith Mann, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, New York Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won the Best Narrative Short Award.
Greg attended Morehouse College and majored in English Literature. While at Morehouse, Greg was an UNCF Scholar and studied the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was also a Merrill Scholar as an undergraduate and studied Creative Writing and English Literature at Hertford College, University of Oxford in England.
Greg attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program. As a graduate student at NYU, Greg received the Lew Wasserman Scholarship. He was also a Tisch School of the Arts Scholar and studied at the FAMU School of Film and Television in Prague, where he received an Excellence in Directing Certificate for his short film Kolos Zloga. He also studied screenwriting in Paris as a Tisch School of the Arts Scholar.
Links
Tar Baby Jane: http://www.tarbabyjane.com/
Introducing August Wilson: https://vimeo.com/69991098 or http://youtu.be/e-51jdJQN_E
Sonny’s Blues: https://vimeo.com/58681522 or http://youtu.be/5Y9CDEfnKvQ
five deep breaths: https://vimeo.com/21202095 or http://youtu.be/O0hf1V1wkDQ
