FrameThrower · Actors · Jesse Williams
Jesse Williams
2 films · 121 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2012–2019
Born 16 June 2004 · Bedfordshire, England, U.K.
Jesse Williams is a Brighton-based writer/director, known for her tender, heartfelt and bold stories of LGBTQ+ community. Proud of her identity as a trans woman, she is driven by an aim to represent the unrepresented, to foster empathy through her filmmaking through a visceral and humanist style aiming to combine powerful visual storytelling with raw emotional authenticity.
Her prior no-budget shorts One More Song, Henry’s Channel, Till Death Do Us Part and The Sewing Circle have made a splash on the British Festival circuit, gaining the ‘Standout Filmmaker Award’ at Brighton Rocks 2024, alongside ‘Best Director’ (2023) and ‘Best Performance’ (2024) awards at the Brighton 48h Film…
How their films are shot
Measured across 121 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jesse takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 68% of their frames are night, 66% low key — the look of the work Jesse takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 121 frames from Jesse Williams's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.