Ben Williams is a filmmaker who has worked on narrative and documentary films for over thirty years.
His most recent success is the screenplay for the feature film Three (2024), which he co-wrote with Dubai-based filmmaker Nayla Al Khaja. The film directed by Al Khaja stars Jefferson Hall (GoT: House of the Dragon) and received its premiere at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It later won the Best Film award at the Al Ain Film Festival in Abu Dhabi. In February 2024, it was released in theaters across the MENA (Middle East/North Africa) film market. Ben has collaborated with Al Khaja on numerous short subjects, film treatments, and screenplays, including writing The Road to Fulfillment, a documentary short produced for the 2020 World Expo in Dubai. In 2023, it won a Silver Dolphin Award at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards.
Prior to working with al Khaja, Ben collaborated with filmmaker Kerry Conran, writer/director of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), co-writing mu
Additionally, Ben has written, directed, and produced several industrial films and documentary short subjects, including Big Baby, a short that focuses on a young basketball player, Glen “Big Baby” Davis, and his efforts to reach the NBA.
In 1991, Red Plastic Hotel, a screenplay written by Ben, was optioned by future Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich), and later became a finalist for a workshop at the Sundance Institute. Ben started his film career working with Soderbergh, co-photographing Rapid Eye Movement, an early short film by Soderbergh, and serving as a sound assistant on sex, lies, and videotape (1989).
A native of Louisiana, Ben earned his B.F.A. in Film & Video from California Institute of the Arts, where he was mentored by the renowned British director Alexander Mackendrick (The Ladykillers, Sweet Smell of Success).
He subsequently worked on several feature films and industrial shorts as an editor, assistant editor, and boom operator.
