ABOUT
Ellis Williams is a three-time Emmy award-winner creating stories across sports media. With more than a decade of production experience, Williams has delivered content for broadcast, streaming, and digital platforms.
Using a variety of multi-media techniques including, practical set design, re-enacting historical events plus archival, Williams focuses on capturing scenes that reveal character; contextualizing the biggest moments across sports. When his career began at Bleacher Report, Williams made viral videos, and had his first experiences in documentary work. When he moved on to CBS Sports, he took on game opens, developed episodic television, and partnerships for campaigns with sports leagues, Now, at ESPN, Williams contributes to flagship programs like SC Featured, College Gameday and more pursuing excellence in short and long form storytelling.
Williams aims to produce stories that celebrate the impact diverse characters have on culture; creating a world that is rooted in community. Through amplifying the voices of marginalized people, it is his goal to add depth and complexity to the Black and Brown experience. Williams newest endeavor looks to merge his skills in production with his passion for narrative film making through developing his first short film on body image and self-discovery.