William McGregor

William McGregor is a writer and director hailing from rural Norfolk England Known for his strong use of landscape and character focused storytelling In 2007 William attended the University for Creative Arts in Farnham England Where he studied a Foundation Degree in Art and Design before beginning a BA in Digital Film and Screen Arts also at the University for the Creative Arts Williams first year student film Whos Afraid of the Water Sprite 2009 won 10 international awards including the Royal Television Award for Best Drama The Cambridge University Film Festival was subsequently renamed The Water Sprite Film Festival after the film The Royal Television Society proclaimed the short as The best student film we have ever seen William followed up Whos Afraid of the Water Sprite 2009 with two graduation films in 2010 Bovine 2010 a 35mm short film about a young boy on a farm which screened at the Berlinale Film Festival and The Little 2010 a dark fantasy about a man and a snail which won the CocaCola Cinemagic Innovation Award in addition to screening at many festivals world wide After graduation William signed to Independent Tallent for representation in Film and TV In 2011 William shot the short film No Escape 2011 for the London SciFi 48 hour film challenge A film which resulted in William being signed by The Mill gb as a commercials director In 2018 William signed with CAA after the world premiere of his debut feature film Gwen 2018 at the Toronto International Film Festival