C.J. Williamson

C.J. Williamson is an award-winning filmmaker born and raised in New York. His work focuses on tonally edgy, textured worlds and the characters that navigate these marginal spaces. He has spent the last several years writing and developing numerous projects in both television and film. His feature script, CUR, inspired by a true story about a young cult acolyte in suburban Long Island has received numerous accolades and was selected for the AFI Script reading series featuring Gary Cole, Alexia Fast, and Wade Williams. Currently he is developing Tinseltown, a television series about a Black actor pioneering his path to stardom through both the iniquities and ecstasies of 60s Hollywood. He is a graduate of Stony Brook University in New York, APA International Film school in Sydney, Australia and the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles where he received his MFA in Directing.