Filmmaker Daniel E. Williams: A Retrospective
Fri, Oct 04
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Haile Gerima in collaboration with Positive Productions Inc. present A retrospective dedicated to filmmaker Daniel E. Williams, complete with film screenings, discussions, and jazz music featuring David White


Time & Location
Oct 04, 2024, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About Daniel E. Williams
Daniel E. Williams received his Bachelor of Arts in 1991 from Howard University and continued directly into the graduate film program. As a student, Williams was honored with a number of awards from such notable organizations as Eastman Kodak, Paramount Studios, and the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His short film Coffee (aka Woman and Man) received a Community Appreciation award from the National Black Programming Consortium and was named Best Experimental Short in 1998 from The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. In 2000, he won Best of Show at the Washington, DC Rosebud Film & Video Festival for his film A Thousand Days a Year, in which he also served as cinematographer. His films have screened at the Kennedy Center and the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, DC, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany, the International Student Film Festival in…