Paul J. Williams

Paul J. Williams is a multi-award-winning screenwriter, producer, director, and consultant. In 2010, he founded Rolling Dark Productions and has had several movies screen at film festivals throughout the world. He is a Quarterfinalist in the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting; a Semifinalist in the 2017 Austin Film Festival; an alumnus of the New Jersey Film School; a Member Emeritus of the New Jersey Screenwriters' Group; and a screenplay reader/analyst for Catch and Release Films and the Austin Film Festival.

Paul has also served as a decorated law enforcement officer for over twenty-years, both as a Federal Officer with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his duties required him to travel to over twenty countries around the world, and as a Police Officer for the City of Newark, N.J. He responded to Ground Zero in Manhattan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions on December 14, 2002; transferred to Morris County, N.J. in July 2006; and was promoted to Detective in July 2015.

He resides in central New Jersey.