Rich Williamson (filmmaker)

Rich Williamson is a Canadian film director, cinematographer and editor, most noted as codirector with Shasha Nakhai of the 2021 film Scarborough.^[1] The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture, and Nakhai and Williamson won the award for Best Director, at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.^[2]

Rich Williamson
Occupation(s)	film director, producer, cinematographer, editor
Years active	2010s-present
Known for	Frame 394, Scarborough

A partner with Nakhai in the production firm Compy Films,^[3] he first became known for his 2016 short documentary film Frame 394, which was a CSA nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.^[4]

He was also a CSA nominee for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for his work on Nakhai's documentary film Take Light,^[5] and at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024 for Cynara.^[6]

Scarborough, codirected by Nakhai and Williamson as their debut narrative feature film, premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.^[7] It was named the winner of the Changemaker Award, was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award, and received an honorable mention from the jury for the Best Canadian Film award.^[8] It was nominated for the Toronto Film Critics Association's Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.^[9]

His other films have included Prom Day (2009), The Sugar Bowl (2011), Joe (2012), Freelance (2014), The Unsinkable Captain John (2014), The Hole in Reservoir Hill (2018)^[10] and Thirty Eight Minutes (2020).