Shelley Williams filmmaker · director · producer

Award-winning film and TV director and producer Shelley Williams collaborates with artists, philosophers, ecologists, dancers, writers and neuroscientists to create entertaining & inspiring work for cinema, TV, exhibition and performance.

“ The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and have forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein.

Her work in fiction and documentary seeks out the space 'in-between' to give visual form to a more balanced view of the world, one that engages both left and right hemispheres. The audience is invited to go beyond the rational mind and connect directly with the reservoir of intuition, myth, innate wisdom and spirit.

With a keen ability to tell stories that tap into universal truths, she visualizes that which often isn't seen, said or consciously understood. This passion for creating beyond the boundaries together with visual flair combine to realize work of high imagination. She seeks to inspire and empower an audience to embrace a transformative, shamanic vision of the human and non-human aspects of the world, synthesizing the elements of matter and spirit, art and science, mind and body. She most definitely honours the gift as well as the servant.

Current Projects

Small World Big ideas

Latest News

E.F. Schumacher | Is Small the Next Big?

Twenty-five years on from the founding of Schumacher College, Leo Johnson, explores the radical vision of E.F.Schumacher, author of cult classic "Small is Beautiful" - the book that upended conventional economics. But do Schumacher's ideas, a blueprint for economics 'as if people mattered' deliver on some of the challenges we've got today?

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Monday May 9th 2016 at 20.00 and Wednesday 11th May 2016 at 11.00.

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Reel Soul Movies Website | Listen on BBC iPlayer

No Destination

Satish Kumar relives his extraordinary 8000 mile walk - made without any money - that took him from the grave of Mahatma Gandhi to the grave of John. F. Kennedy. Along the way, he was thrown into jail and faced a loaded gun - as well as meeting some of the most remarkable people of the twentieth century.

An 'Archive on 4' on BBC Radio 4. Broadcast 14th June 2014 8pm

BBC World Service was broadcast Saturday 12th July at 09.06BST & Sunday 13th July at 20.06BST

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Reel Soul Movies Website | Listen on BBC iPlayer

News & Projects Archive

Fragments of Time & The Avenue of Champions

Fragments of Time at Salisbury Cathedral

Shelley's film, 'FRAGMENTS OF TIME' screened at Salisbury Cathedral over the summer of 2012 to over 90,000 visitors as part of Ben Dearnley's 'Avenue of Champions' exhibition.

Ben Dearnley's Website