Amiel Williams

Directing

Amiel Williams

Berkeley, California, USA

Amiel Williams, also known as El Rey, is an emerging independent filmmaker from California interested in creating narratives connected to place and identity. Their work focuses on the horror and documentary genres, aiming to explore the complexities of human experience.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Suite Tortilla #60: The New Man and the Schoolteacher poster
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A documentary vignette explores the life of Revolutionary feminist and filmmaker Magda Gonzalez Grau, capturing a pivotal interview moment that reveals her evolving feminist politics during the Cuban Revolution.

Suite Tortilla #60: The New Man and the Schoolteacher

2024

Suite Tortilla #60: The New Man and the Schoolteacher poster
NR

A documentary vignette explores the life of Revolutionary feminist and filmmaker Magda Gonzalez Grau, capturing a pivotal interview moment that reveals her evolving feminist politics during the Cuban Revolution.

Suite Tortilla #60: The New Man and the Schoolteacher

2024

Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women poster
NR

An American lesbian in Cuba explores gender through dance and film, blending personal experiences and cultural symbols with music and Revolutionary cinema and questions how lesbians fit into Cuban cinema.

Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women

2024

Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women poster
NR

An American lesbian in Cuba explores gender through dance and film, blending personal experiences and cultural symbols with music and Revolutionary cinema and questions how lesbians fit into Cuban cinema.

Suite Tortilla #59: The Celluloid Women

2024

SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN poster
NR

On the cusp of college graduation and without any clear direction, the unmotivated and misguided Bethany turns to the spiritual to plead for more time, eternal youth.

SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN

2024

SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN poster
NR

On the cusp of college graduation and without any clear direction, the unmotivated and misguided Bethany turns to the spiritual to plead for more time, eternal youth.

SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN

2024

ways to spend it poster
NR

Using archival iPhone footage of both the places my father and I call home and our childhood photos, this work collages time and space, traveling from 1975 to 2022 and from Havana, Cuba to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in between. His home is my home, and my home is his.

ways to spend it

2025

ways to spend it poster
NR

Using archival iPhone footage of both the places my father and I call home and our childhood photos, this work collages time and space, traveling from 1975 to 2022 and from Havana, Cuba to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in between. His home is my home, and my home is his.

ways to spend it

2025