Mark D. Williams

Biography

Mark D. Williams is an award-winning Mississippi Choctaw filmmaker from Shawnee, Oklahoma, and a 2023 inductee into the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame for Media. His first feature-length documentary about stickball, Tvshka Nowvt Aya (Warrior’s Journey), won Best Film at the 2018 NatiVisions Film Festival, and his second feature documentary, Ikhaiyana Ia Chi (I Will Remember), won three awards at the LA Skins Fest. Mark’s other notable works include his documentaries, Warrior Coach, which won Best Director at LA Skins Fest, and The Journey of Tiak Hikiya Ohoyo, which won Best Feature Film at the Indigenous Film Festival.