Sean Price Williams

While working at legendary video stores like Kim's Video and becoming a fixture at every New York City repertory cinema, Sean Price Williams has been obsessed with movies ever since his early teens. His breathtaking cinematography is showcased in Jessica Oreck's Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, which premiered at the South by South West (SXSW) Film Festival in 2009, and for which Variety's Justin Chang described Williams' camerawork and visual style as pure poetry. The film went on to win a Special Documentary Jury Prize for Artistic Vision at CineVegas 2009.

Williams was cinematographer on Ronald Bronstein's Frownland, which received a Special Jury Award at SXSW in 2007 and was named the 2007 Gotham Award-winner for 'Best Film Not Playing at a Theatre Near You'. Williams was also cinematographer on Mary Bronstein's Yeast, starring Greta Gerwig. He has shot two films each for Alex Ross Perry (Impolex and The Color Wheel) and for Robert Greene (Kati with an I and Fake It So Real).

Williams added his exquisite cinematography to director Bob Byington's epic comedy, Somebody Up There Likes Me, starring Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally. Noah Baumbach has twice hired Williams for his camerawork: once for a Saturday Night Live film segment and again for a Criterion Collection documentary-look at the making of the classic film My Dinner with Andre. For the Safdie Brothers, Williams shot The Black Balloon, which won The Jury Prize in Short Film, U.S. Fiction, at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Williams also has worked alongside Abel Ferrara and extensively as cameraman with mentor and living legend Albert Maysles.

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