Tim Williams is a Fort Worth, Texas native and an American film producer, director and screenwriter. He has worked steadily in the film industry since obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Theater from the University of Arizona in 1983. Since beginning his film career in 1983 in Los Angeles, Mr. Williams has produced, written and directed hundreds of film and video productions in twenty-eight states and twelve countries. His early career includes working as a crew member on numerous feature and television productions. He worked as a set dresser on Universal Pictures’ Born on the Fourth of July, as a carpenter on Visteon’s Wax Works and as a talent coordinator on HBO’s First and Ten. Mr. Williams has also appeared in front of the camera in Warner Bros.’ Police Academy II, NBC’s “Santa Barbara”, Fox’s “Married with Children” and CBS’ “Timestalkers”. He appeared on stage in “Wonderful Town” and “Picnic”.

In 1997, Mr. Williams formed Thunderbolt Films to produce and direct commercials, features and documentaries, as well as provide production services for his corporate clients. That same year he wrote, produced and directed “The Break”, a 30-minute short film about a desperate World War II P-47 fighter pilot. For three years, “The Break” aired on PBS television stations, KERA in Dallas and, KQED in San Francisco as part of their Memorial Day programming. Mr. Williams received the Best in Show Addy Award at the 1998 Dallas Advertising Awards for his direction of five commercials for Turning Stone Casino in Oneida, New York.

Mr. Williams has directed and produced projects for Morgan Stanley, EDS, The Staubach Company, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Turning Stone Casino, Pepsi, Mt. Dew, Wyndham Hotels, Oldsmobile and American Airlines, among others. In 2006, Mr. Williams wrote, produced and directed the documentary Band of Champions about the 2005 Highland Park Scots football team’s bumpy road to the Texas state championship, which Kirk Dooley of the Dallas Morning News described as “a stunning one hour, 13-minute film produced in high-definition, with a production quality on par with NFL Films.” In November 2021, Band of Champions was signed by Echelon Studios for worldwide distribution and sales.

In 2009, he made the documentary Protect the Family about Fort Worth All Saints’ Episcopal School’s first march to a state football championship. In 2009 and 2010, Mr. Williams traveled to Iraq to direct a series of award-winning commercials for Tostitos, Salute the Troops, in which a team of college football legends were flown to Iraq on New Year’s Day with the idea of taking a bowl game to the troops, and Connect to Home in which a select group of troops were picked to return home from Iraq to surprise their families during halftime at the Tostitos BCS National Championship game. In 2018-21, Mr. Williams wrote, directed and produced a feature-length documentary, The Colonel’s Playbook. The documentary features Colonel Rosacker and his sons, former students, teachers and parents, as they recount Colonel’s history and his ability to foster excellence in each of his students. The documentary has attracted world-wide distribution from Echelon Studios in Hollywood.

In 2020-21, Mr. Williams wrote a Sci-Fi TV series, “Nowhere Man”, as well as a new romantic comedy feature screenplay, “V Day”.

The Colonel is Mr. Williams’ sixth screenplay. It will be his third feature to also produce and direct.