VIDEO
I love video so much because it lets me combine music and photography. I've been filming and editing since 2000 when I was a member of the Primary Colors. I really enjoy making videos that document events in my life and the lives of my friends. That led to making several wedding videos and collaborating on music videos with friends. For now I'm retired from the wedding video business and hoping to focus more on music videos (and of course documenting my newborn son Trey).
What William is Watching
The VisitorWidowed professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) discovers an immigrant couple, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), squatting in his Manhattan flat and becomes wrapped up in their lives when Tarek is thrown into a detention center. A wonderful Hiam Abbass co-stars as Tarek's mother, who forges an unlikely connection with Walter. Director Thomas McCarthy's follow-up to his indie hit The Station Agent premiered at Sundance in 2008.
Manda BalaDocumentarian Jason Kohn aims his lens at Brazil, widely considered one of the world's most corrupt and violent nations, to capture the ways in which people make a living -- and try to stay alive. Subjects include a businessman who invests in bulletproofing his cars; a politician who runs a suspiciously lucrative frog farm; and a plastic surgeon who specializes in the reconstruction of mutilated ears. In 2007, this film won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
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