[2] He worked in advertising through most of his twenties, before "taking a gamble" and moving to London[3] to attend the Met Film School run by Ealing Studios in 2006.
[1] Soon after graduating, Williams made commercials, for which he won three consecutive Mofilm awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
[1] Williams returned to his home town of Adelaide to make his first feature fiction film, Emotion Is Dead, whose central character is a young emo skateboarder who had lost his job when the Holden factory in Elizabeth closed down[1] in 2017.
The film features actors who live with disability in prominent roles, including Isi Sweeney, an actress with Down syndrome, and mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and grief are also portrayed by several characters.
[12] The film was shot with a very low budget (around A$300,000, most of it funded by Williams), and features many Adelaide landmarks and icons, including the Big Rocking Horse at Gumeracha, the old Holden factory, Hindley Street, the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Popeye (a boat on the Torrens River), Farmers Union Iced Coffees, West End red tins and a frog cake.