Glenn Williamson

Glenn Williamson is an independent film producer with more than 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Through his production company Back Lot Pictures, he has produced such films as Hollywoodland, starring Ben Affleck, Adrien Brody and Diane Lane; Sunshine Cleaning, starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt; Push, starring Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans and Camilla Belle; Wonderful World, starring Matthew Broderick and Sanaa Lathan; and the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winning film Happythankyoumoreplease, written, directed and starring Josh Radnor. He is currently in post-production on The Runner, starring Nicolas Cage, Peter Fonda and Sarah Paulson. Williamson started his film career in 1988 at Castle Rock Entertainment before joining Walter Parkes’ and Laurie MacDonald’s production company as an executive. He moved with them to Amblin Entertainment, and then to DreamWorks SKG, where he served as a senior production executive. During his time there, he supervised such films as Sam Mendes’ Academy Award-winning American Beauty and Road to Perdition; and Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, which won the best original screenplay Oscar in 2001. When Focus Features formed in 2002, Williamson became the specialty label’s president of production. During his tenure there, he supervised Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven; Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair; and Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (also serving as an executive producer), for which Charlie Kaufman’s script won the Academy Award. Williamson is a member of the Producers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, he sits on the Foreign Language Executive Committee, and he is a board member of the annual Virginia Film Festival. Additionally, he teaches “The Art and Business of Producing” at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has taught film and television industry courses at both Chapman University and Sonoma State University.