Guest Industry Expert — All Access 2021:

Bendrix Williams

Founder and Executive Director, The 48 Film Festival Inc.

Bendrix is the Founder and Executive Director for the The 48 Film Festival Inc. and currently serves on the Board of Directors for OSM. For six years he worked for the Winnipeg Film Group as one of the artistic, development and operational leaders. Ben has a BA (Magna Cum Laude) in Advertising Graphics from Central State University in Ohio and studied digital filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Manhattan. Prior to Canada, Bendrix worked for over 15 years in digital media studios in NYC, Chicago and Shanghai. Most notably, he worked for JWT/New York in the broadcast and entertainment division and for Wieden+Kennedy in Shanghai on an award winning, groundbreaking Nike campaign featuring NBA superstar Kobe Bryant. He’s also among the first generation of vLoggers, Youtubers and Podcast pioneers to emerge in the mid-2000s.