USA

Marco Williams was born in 1956. He is a producer and director, known for Two Towns of Jasper (2002), Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2006) and In Search of Our Fathers (1992). He received a B.A. from Harvard University, in Visual and Environmental Studies, 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 currently a Professor at Northwestern University in the School of Communication, the Department of Radio, Film and Television and a Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. His work has received awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the “Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor” in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill”, a George Foster Peabody Award, the Beacon Award, the Alfred I duPont Silver Baton, among many others.

Filmography

Without a Pass (1991)
In Search of Our Fathers (1992)
Two Towns of Jasper (2002)
MLK Boulevard (2003)
Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Freedom Summer (2006)
Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America (2006)
Inside the New Black Panthers (2009)
The Undocumented (2013)
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017)
Crafting An Echo (2019)
Around the World in Raleigh (2015)
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre (2021)
Murders that Matter (2023)