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'''Sean Price Williams''' is an American [[director of photography]].
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'''Sean Price Williams''' is an American cinematographer. Born in [[Wilmington, Delaware]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.delawareonline.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/09/26/hellaware-film-means-offense-first-state/16285091/|title='Hellaware' film means no offense to First State|work=[[The News Journal]]|first=Margie|last=Fishman|date=September 26, 2014|accessdate=October 27, 2017}}</ref> he is based in [[New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/sean-price-williams|title=The cinematographer behind all of your favorite underground films|work=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|first=Julia|last=Yepes|date=August 17, 2017|accessdate=October 27, 2017}}</ref>


==Career==
One of his early assignments was for [[Jessica Oreck]]'s ''[[Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo]]'', which premiered at the 2009 [[South By South West Film Festival]] (SXSW), and which was lauded by [[Justin Chang]] in a review for [[Variety (magazine)|''Variety'']], describing Williams' camerawork and visual style as "pure poetry."{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}
One of Williams' early assignments was for Jessica Oreck's ''[[Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo]]'', which premiered at the 2009 [[South by South West]] (SXSW), and which was lauded by [[Justin Chang]] in a review for ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', describing Williams' camerawork and visual style as "pure poetry."{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}


Williams was cinematographer on Ronald Bronstein's ''[[Frownland (film)|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 several films for [[Alex Ross Perry]]: ''[[Impolex]]'', ''[[The Color Wheel]]'', ''[[Listen Up Philip]]'', ''[[Queen of Earth]]'' and most recently ''[[Golden Exits]]'', which premiered in Sundance's 2017 U.S. Dramatic Competition.
Williams was cinematographer on Ronald Bronstein's ''[[Frownland (film)|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 several films for [[Alex Ross Perry]]: ''[[Impolex]]'', ''[[The Color Wheel]]'', ''[[Listen Up Philip]]'', ''[[Queen of Earth]]'' and most recently ''[[Golden Exits]]'', which premiered in Sundance's 2017 U.S. Dramatic Competition.
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Williams has worked with the [[Safdie brothers]] on several films: ''[[The Black Balloon (film)|The Black Balloon]]'', won the Jury Prize in Short Film, U.S. Fiction, at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, ''[[Heaven Knows What]]'' premiered at Toronto, screened at SXSW and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2017, he shot the highly anticipated ''[[Good Time (film)|Good Time]]'' starring [[Robert Pattinson]].
Williams has worked with the [[Safdie brothers]] on several films: ''[[The Black Balloon (film)|The Black Balloon]]'', won the Jury Prize in Short Film, U.S. Fiction, at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, ''[[Heaven Knows What]]'' premiered at Toronto, screened at SXSW and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2017, he shot the highly anticipated ''[[Good Time (film)|Good Time]]'' starring [[Robert Pattinson]].


Williams has worked alongside [[Abel Ferrara]] and [[Noah Baumbach]] and served extensively as cameraman for mentor [[Albert Maysles]], with whom he collaborated on ''[[Iris (2014 film)|Iris]]'', the Maysles' last documentary about the scintillating and stylish N.Y. octogenarian.
Williams has worked alongside [[Abel Ferrara]] and [[Noah Baumbach]] and served extensively as cameraman for mentor [[Albert Maysles]], with whom he collaborated on ''Iris'', the Maysles' last documentary about the scintillating and stylish N.Y. octogenarian.


The ''[[New Yorker (magazine)|New Yorker]]'' film critic [[Richard Brody]] has praised Williams, describing him as "the cinematographer for many of the best and most significant independent films of the past decade, fiction and documentary."<ref>[[Richard Brody]], "[http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-safdie-brothers-transcendent-good-time “Good Time” Is an Instant-Classic Crime Drama for the Age of Trump]," ''[[The New Yorker]]'', August 15, 2017.
The ''[[New Yorker (magazine)|New Yorker]]'' film critic [[Richard Brody]] has praised Williams, describing him as "the cinematographer for many of the best and most significant independent films of the past decade, fiction and documentary."<ref>[[Richard Brody]], "[http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-safdie-brothers-transcendent-good-time “Good Time” Is an Instant-Classic Crime Drama for the Age of Trump]," ''[[The New Yorker]]'', August 15, 2017.</ref><ref>———. "[http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/postscript-albert-maysles-1926-2015 Postscript: Albert Maysles, 1926-2015]," ''[[The New Yorker]]'', March 16, 2015.</ref>
* ———. "[http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/postscript-albert-maysles-1926-2015 Postscript: Albert Maysles, 1926-2015]," ''[[The New Yorker]]'', March 16, 2015.</ref>


== Filmography (as cinematographer) ==
==Filmography==
'''Feature films'''
* 2008 &ndash; ''[[Yeast]]'' by Mary Bronstein
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* ''[[Frownland (film)|Frownland]]'' (2007)
* 2009 &ndash; ''[[Impolex]]'' by [[Alex Ross Perry]]
* ''Yeast'' (2008)
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* 2009 &ndash; ''[[Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo]]'' by Jessica Oreck
* ''[[Impolex]]'' (2009)
* 2010 &ndash; ''[[Mulberry Street (2010 film)|Mulberry Street]]'' by [[Abel Ferrara]]
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* ''[[Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo]]'' (2009)
* 2012 &ndash; ''[[Kuichisan]]'' by Maiko Endo
* ''Mulberry Street'' (2010)
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* 2012 &ndash; ''[[If You Take This]]'' by Craig Butta
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* ''[[The Color Wheel]]'' (2011)
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* 2012 &ndash; ''[[Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012 film)|Somebody Up There Likes Me]]'' by Bob Byington
* ''Kuichisan'' (2012)
* 2012 &ndash; ''[[The Black Balloon (2012 film)|The Black Balloon]]'' by [[Safdie brothers|Ben and Joshua Safdie]]
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* ''[[Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012 film)|Somebody Up There Likes Me]]'' (2012)
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* 2013 &ndash; ''[[The Color Wheel]]'' by Alex Ross Perry
* ''The Black Balloon'' (2012)
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* 2014 &ndash; ''[[The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga]]'' by Jessica Oreck
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* ''If You Take This'' (2014)
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* 2014 &ndash; ''[[Listen Up Philip]]'' by Alex Ross Perry
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* ''The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga'' (2014)
* 2014 &ndash; ''[[Iris (2014 film)|Iris]]'' by [[Albert Maysles]]
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* ''[[Listen Up Philip]]'' (2014)
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* 2014 &ndash; ''[[Young Bodies Heak Quicly]]'' by Andrew T. Betzer
* ''Iris'' (2014)
* 2015 &ndash; ''[[Queen of Earth]]'' by Alex Ross Perry
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* ''Young Bodies Heak Quicly'' (2014)
* 2015 &ndash; ''[[Heaven Knows What]]'' by Ben & Joshua Safdie
* ''[[Heaven Knows What]]'' (2014)
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* 2015 &ndash; ''[[Christmas, Again]]'' by Charles Poekel
* 2015 &ndash; ''[[Sin Alas]]'' by Ben Chace
* ''[[Queen of Earth]]'' (2015)
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* ''[[Christmas, Again]]'' (2015)
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* 2016 &ndash; ''[[Frownland (film)|Frownland]]'' by Ronald Bronstein
* ''Sin Alas'' (2015)
* 2016 &ndash; ''[[Kate Plays Christine]]'' by [[Robert Greene (filmmaker)|Robert Greene]]
* ''[[Kate Plays Christine]]'' (2016)
* 2016 &ndash; ''[[Contemporary Color]]'' by Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross
* 2017 &ndash; ''[[Good Time (film)|Good Time]]'' by Ben & Joshua Safdie
* ''[[Good Time (film)|Good Time]]'' (2017)
* 2017 &ndash; ''[[Thirst Street]]'' by Nathan Silver
* ''[[Thirst Street]]'' (2017)
* 2017 &ndash; ''[[Golden Exits]]'' by Alex Ross Perry
* ''[[Golden Exits]]'' (2017)
* 2017 &ndash; ''[[Marjorie Prime]]'' by [[Michael Almereyda]]
* ''[[Marjorie Prime]]'' (2017)

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==External links==
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*{{IMDb name|0998342|Sean Price Williams}}


==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2770900/cinematographer-sean-price-williams/|title=Meet Micro-Budget Filmmaking's Most Exciting Cinematographer|work=[[MTV]]|first=Calum|last=Marsh|date=July 17, 2013}}

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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0998342|Sean Price Williams}}


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Revision as of 15:45, 27 October 2017

Sean Price Williams
Born
Wilmington, Delaware
OccupationCinematographer

Sean Price Williams is an American cinematographer. Born in Wilmington, Delaware,[1] he is based in New York.[2]

Career

One of Williams' early assignments was for Jessica Oreck's Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, which premiered at the 2009 South by South West (SXSW), and which was lauded by Justin Chang in a review for Variety, describing Williams' camerawork and visual style as "pure poetry."[citation needed]

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 several films for Alex Ross Perry: Impolex, The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth and most recently Golden Exits, which premiered in Sundance's 2017 U.S. Dramatic Competition.

Williams has worked with the Safdie brothers on several films: The Black Balloon, won the Jury Prize in Short Film, U.S. Fiction, at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Heaven Knows What premiered at Toronto, screened at SXSW and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2017, he shot the highly anticipated Good Time starring Robert Pattinson.

Williams has worked alongside Abel Ferrara and Noah Baumbach and served extensively as cameraman for mentor Albert Maysles, with whom he collaborated on Iris, the Maysles' last documentary about the scintillating and stylish N.Y. octogenarian.

The New Yorker film critic Richard Brody has praised Williams, describing him as "the cinematographer for many of the best and most significant independent films of the past decade, fiction and documentary."[3][4]

Filmography

Feature films

References

  1. ^ Fishman, Margie (September 26, 2014). "'Hellaware' film means no offense to First State". The News Journal. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Yepes, Julia (August 17, 2017). "The cinematographer behind all of your favorite underground films". Interview. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
  3. ^ Richard Brody, "“Good Time” Is an Instant-Classic Crime Drama for the Age of Trump," The New Yorker, August 15, 2017.
  4. ^ ———. "Postscript: Albert Maysles, 1926-2015," The New Yorker, March 16, 2015.

Further reading

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