Mark D. Williams

Directing

Mark D. Williams

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Mark D. Williams is an award-winning Mississippi Choctaw filmmaker from Shawnee, Oklahoma, and a 2023 inductee into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame for Media. His first feature-length documentary about stickball, Tvshka Nowvt Aya (Warrior’s Journey), won Best Film at the 2018 NatiVisions Film Festival, and his second feature documentary, Ikhaiyana Ia Chi (I Will Remember), won three awards at the LA Skins Fest. Mark’s other notable works include his documentaries, Warrior Coach, which won Best Director at LA Skins Fest, and The Journey of Tiak Hikiya Ohoyo, which won Best Feature Film at the Indigenous Film Festival.

Known for

Behind the camera

Stickball: The Little Brother of War poster
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A ragtag women's team of underdogs and outsiders must come together to defeat the incumbent champions, earn ancestral pride for their community, and settle a historic rivalry in the oldest and bloodiest sport in America: Native American Stickball.

Stickball: The Little Brother of War

2026

Stickball: The Little Brother of War poster
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A ragtag women's team of underdogs and outsiders must come together to defeat the incumbent champions, earn ancestral pride for their community, and settle a historic rivalry in the oldest and bloodiest sport in America: Native American Stickball.

Stickball: The Little Brother of War

2026

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Can an underdog women’s team take down the incumbent champions to earn ancestral pride for their community and capture their first championship at The World Series of Stickball?

There's No Crying in Stickball

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The Choctaw Nation's stickball team prepares for the biggest annual stickball event: the World Series held annually in Mississippi.

Warrior's Journey

2018

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A story about the rise of the Oklahoma Choctaw Nation women's stickball team, Tvshka Homma Ohoya also known as the Lady Red Warriors, and two Nations coming together (Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation) to become a force in the stickball community.

Lady Red Warriors

2024

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8.0

An escaped mental patient dies in 1984 at the home of her former doctor. But that was just the beginning.

Violet

2015

Violet poster
8.0

An escaped mental patient dies in 1984 at the home of her former doctor. But that was just the beginning.

Violet

2015