User:Marquette Williams

Marquette Jerome Williams (born October 15, 1972) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is currently a partner and CEO for Greenhouse Studios. As managing director of studio business and creative affairs, he is responsible for promoting the growth of studio-based business to GHS. His creative body of work includes award-winning films as Bella Rose, Buckle Brothers, and Unspeakable, as well as a wide range of other projects. He is currently in pre-production of Greenhouse’s latest feature films Dead Recon and the crime drama Carried By Six, which he will be directing. He will also be directing a documentary on the National Fatherhood Initiative. Williams remains committed to socially conscious media projects that will improve and inspire his community.

Early Life

Williams was born in Detroit, Michigan. Mother Sheila Williams left his father JC Williams, to begin a new life in Cleveland, Ohio with her son. His mother worked three jobs to put him through school and today he cites her as a major inspiration. Through classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art and in the Upward Bound program, Williams discovered his talents as both an artist and an athlete. In 1985 he moved to the suburban neighborhood of Twinsburg, Ohio. At Twinsburg High School he excelled at football, basketball, and track, eventually earning a football scholarship to the University of Minnesota. Here he took his first film class and became interested in filmmaking. After dropping out of college to pursue a career in the NFL, he ultimately decided to move out to Hollywood and seek work as a screenwriter. Writing since he was nine years old Williams knew this was his true passion.

Career

Williams’ first company project was working on the film Bella Rose with Marcus Franklin. Through this he gained access to the film world and festival circuit. His next film, another collaboration with Franklin, was a documentary about African American bull riders title Buckle Brothers. This premiered at the AFI Film Festival and also played at 34 film festivals across the world. It was at the Cleveland International Film Festival that he met fellow filmmakers and Greenhouse co-founders Desi Green and Moni Boyce.

He developed the feature-length thriller Unspeakable with Green and Boyce. They shot the entire film on-location in Ohio. When they returned to Los Angeles to finish post-production on their film, they were inspired to open Greenhouse Studios as an affordable production - post-production resource for other filmmakers like themselves. Now in its third year of business, Greenhouse serves as the platform for Williams and others to pursue their filmmaking interests.

Links

GREENHOUSE STUDIOS www.greenhousestudios.net

IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2037891/

UNSPEAKABLE http://www.indicanpictures.com/films/drama/unspeakable/

BUCKLE BROTHERS

http://www.indicanpictures.com/films/documentary/buckle-brothers/