FILM

About the Director

Gavin Williams is an award-winning writer and film maker based in the North of England. As a writer he has been commissioned by Yorkshire TV, Channel 5, Carlton, Penguin, HTV, Corgi/Transworld, Lego and Ubisoft among many others. In 2009 Gavin began to direct and SLEEPWORKING is his second film as a writer-director. SLEEPWORKING won both the Prix du Meilleur Film and the Quiet Earth Prize at the Festival du Film Merveilleux & Imaginaire in Paris, France, and the Audience Award for Best Short at the Full Moon Horror and Fantasy Film Festival 2013 in Romania. The film has screened at or is an official selection for over fifteen international film festivals. Gavin won a Northern Promise Award in 2011 and his apocalyptic supernatural horror novel, HUSH (written with Tim Lebbon- buy here http://amzn.to/17ekuYZ) was short-listed for a British Fantasy Society award for best novel. In 2010 Gavin penned an original novel, DRIVER: NEMESIS (under the name Alex Sharp) set in the universe of Ubisoft's best-selling Driver videogame franchise for Random House and Ubisoft. He is currently developing a scifi horror feature, FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, with Shudder films and director Johnny Kevorkian (THE DISAPPEARED), and his own debut feature, BEHIND THE EYE.