Robert Williams studied Film and English at UEA. He is the producer, writer and director of the short film, The Crackling Glade, commissioned by Ideastap's Innovators scheme. The film was an award winner of the Shakespeare Short Film Festival by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. It was screened in Imperial War Museum for two weeks in 2014. He was the Producer, Writer and Director on Urban Spiritual, made for the Ex Animo Foundation and as part of the Roundhouse's creative programme. He has been producing for Shan Ng’s films, including The Cult of June and A Situation, developing science fiction Mortal Joys with late Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz in 2018. He was selected as a producer on Nocturnal for Film London Microwave Film Fund 2016 and participated in WEP Films' Junior Entertainment Talent Slate 2018 in Berlin. Robert has worked as a senior talent agent since 2015. You can find out more about this on our Management page.
Shan was born and raised in Hong Kong. She studied Literature at the University of Hong Kong before relocating to London. She has been a director/producer at the BBC for eight years. Her works have been broadcast on BBC 2, BBC World and BBC Radio 4 online.
Her first short film, Merry-Go- Round, was the winner of the Borough Film Fund Award, Film London. Her long short, …May Wong, was premiered in London Royal Opera House and screened at Hong Kong Arts Festival, Beijing International Film Festival and was invited to Verona Film Festival. Her theatre, The Pilgrimage of the Heart, funded by the Arts Council England, had a four-week run in London and Slough.
In 2018, she directed a BBC Radio 4 drama, Tiger Girls. In 2017, her feature film, The Vanishing Time, was commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and selected in JETS, a co-production initiative during Berlin Film Festival 2018. In 2016, her feature project Nocturnal was selected by Film London Microwave Film Fund for development. In 2014, she was shortlisted by London Calling Plus, Film London as well as iFeatures, Creative England, and in 2013 she was selected for the Triangle Film scheme by Screen Yorkshire.