Kelly Williams is a creative producer and co-founder of Ten Acre Films.
His latest projects include: All That We Love (Tribeca 2024) starring Margaret Cho and directed by Yen Tan, What Happens Later starring Meg Ryan and David Duchovny, The Senior starring Michael Chiklis & Mary Stuart Masterson, Mark, Mary + Some Other People (Tribeca 2021), No Future (Tribeca 2021), I Used to Go Here (SXSW 2020) and the short film Rules For Werewolves (Toronto IFF 2020).
He has produced ten films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival including the features Light From Light, Sorry To Bother You (Independent Spirit Award winner), The Long Dumb Road, Hellion, Beaver Trilogy Part IV, and Pit Stop (Independent Spirit Awards nominee). Sundance short film premieres include Hellion, Black Metal, The Send Off and Don’t Be a Hero. In addition, he produced multiple films that premiered at SXSW including 6 Years, 1985 and the award winning A Bad Idea Gone Wrong & The Suplex Duplex Complex.
A 2019 Independent Spirit Award Producer to Watch nominee, Williams is also a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and a Sundance Institute Catalyst Fellow. He is a past advisor for the Sundance Co//ab, an instructor for The Gotham workshops, a lecturer at the University of Tennessee and at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to producing, he worked as a film programmer for various film festivals and was awarded the 2007 International Film Festival Summit Excellence Award for his work at the Austin Film Festival.
