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Robert Steven Williams
Robert Steven Williams is an award-winning filmmaker and novelist. He’s also a musician and entrepreneur. His first full-length documentary Gatsby in Connecticut was selected by The New Yorker as one of the best films of 2020. Featuring Sam Waterston and narrated by Keir Dullea, the documentary explores the early years of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, as well as the origins of The Great Gatsby. Distributed by Vision Films.

Since 1998 Williams has been writing stories and making short films and videos for not-for-profits including the Paul Newman founded Safe Water Network, and the Dublin-based, Concern Worldwide. When Amazon purged hundreds of thousands of independent documentaries in 2021, the IDA asked Williams to write an article for them about it.

His novel My Year as a Clown won the silver medal award for Popular Fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards in 2013 (Against the Grain Press). He is currently finishing up his second novel and working on a documentary about Somalia, based on a piece he wrote for the Dublin-based NGO Concern Worldwide.

He was an executive producer and a writer for the CBGB Comic Book Series which was nominated in 2011 for a Harvey. His short story 12 Miles 48 Stop was a finalist in the Great American Fiction Contest sponsored by The Saturday Evening Post.

He is currently working on a documentary about Somalia, based on a piece he wrote for the Dublin-based NGO Concern Worldwide.

Williams is a former senior executive at HMV, a division of the EMI Music Group, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.