Duke Magazine’s January/February issue has an article on the 25th Anniversary of the Mary Lou Williams Center. I was interviewed for this piece where I speak briefly about the documentary that I’m working on for the center.

Read the article here.

Yesterday (November 29th, 2008), I shot some B-roll for the Mary Lou Williams Center documentary. Steve Milligan was the cinematographer and Kevin Wu, Duke ‘11, was the camera assistant.

MLWC B-Roll 11.29.08 from Neil Williams on Vimeo.

I’ll upload some footage soon. I had been wanting to work with Steve for a while now so I’m glad that we were finally able to make it happen.

Working on the Mary Lou Williams Center documentary

… still logging and editing footage.

‘Bout to go eat some Turkey with the fam. Happy Thanksgiving!

Right now, I’m working on one feature-length doc, and two short documentaries. I start film school at the University of Southern California in January. So I’m working to finish things up before then.

Please continue to check out this website for updates.

Sneak Preview:

or also watch it on YouTube.

So I’m in the process of making a 30-minute documentary for the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture at Duke University. The doc should be done in Spring of 2009, but here’s a little segment that was shown last week at the 25th Anniversary of the center.