Grace Williams - Bio

Grace Williams was born and raised just outside of Oxford in a small town called Woodstock (not the hippy one, more of a yuppy one!) by her single-mother. She spent much of her childhood entertaining herself by singing, playing music and acting out plays and film scenes in her loft and garage. Watching a young Johnny Depp in films like Benny & Joon, What’s Eating Gilbert Grapeand Edward Scissorhands, she was inspired to become an actress.

Grace studied at Oxford College and Bath Spa University, putting on and performing in many plays
(The Glass Menagerie, Alice In Wonderland etc) and comedy shorts (The Poker Game, What Have You Comedy). She wrote her dissertation on Japanese Horror Films, The Representation Of Women and The Differences in Their American Remakes. She also fell into the Oxford music scene, performing in The Prohibition Smokers’Club at venues and festivals across and beyond the county lines and making music promo videos for a host of bands (Dubwiser Dancehall, Smilex and Half Decent to name a few). During the process, she found herself drawn to the other side of the camera and specifically the editing part of filmmaking inspired by directors like Lynch, Kubrick, Burton and Tarantino, and films like Ringu, Rebecca and Suspiria. She found the actress ‘game’ to be too reliant on things out of her control, be it generic casting calls or disorganised amateur groups - so remembering advice given to her by Jack Black on the set of Gulliver’s Travels, decided to create her own content and start writing and creating for herself.

Over the next few years, whilst still attempting to find work as an actress, she got a job in the local independent cinema and spent a few years as marketing manager there. Using this to gain insight and experience in the film industry (including a buying trip to Festival de Cannes), and obviously pay for equipment and finance future creative endeavours such asweb series’, experimental shorts and more sophisticated music promos. Deciding that she needed more knowledge in the area of filmmaking, she studied a Filmmaking Masters at Bath Spa University. After writing financing, editing, directing and promoting her award winning short film Eazy Meets, she is now constantly writing, looking for collaborators and offers support in many elements in the film industry. She currently writes for Indie film website Battle Royale With Cheese, and co-hosted, edited and promoted a not for profit online show Co-Video Breakdown during the 2020 UK pandemic lockdown.