DAOUD SARHANDI WILLIAMS
Filmmaker
Writer
Film Editor
Teacher
I am an award-winning FILMMAKER with a wealth of additional creative experience. I grew up in Bristol, studied in London, and subsequently have worked all over the world.
Writer
I am currently working on a book about Ukraine. This visual/literary book, called Ukraine at War: Street Art, Posters + Poetry, is almost complete. I anticipate that it will be out in March 2023. More here.
Bosnian War Posters was published by Interlink Books in May 2022. It is distributed by Simon & Schuster. More here.
ABC of Film & Video Editing will be out in 2023, published by Interlink Books. It is currently in the final stages of being edited. More here.
Film Step by Step: Methodology of Self-Awareness, by Carolina Rivas, was published in Barcelona in 2020. I edited and redesigned this Spanish-language cinema book, which was originally published in Mexico in 2010.
I have written for a variety of print and online publications, including Eye magazine, London, and Proceso, Mexico City.
Filmmaker
Film Editor
I have been editing and sound-designing films since the 1980s—first on celluloid and digitally since the mid-1990s. Today I mainly work in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition, but I also have working knowledge of Avid, Final Cut Pro, Lightworks and Protools.
Watch my showreel
See my main credits on IMDb.com
Teacher
I started teaching film editing in Mexico in 2006. After moving to Barcelona in 2012, I became the head of film editing at La Casa del Cine. I stayed in this position until 2021. I now give classes at ECCIT, in Lerida. I give private individual classes if asked, and teach all Videovalores courses. I teach in Spanish and English.
NEWS
UNTITLED
I am currently working with two colleagues in Oslo and Kraków on a collection of poetry by Iranian women poets.
This project will be defined by mid-February 2023, and hopefully translated and edited by late spring, early summer.
UKRAINE AT WAR: STREET ART, POSTERS + POETRY
I was in Kyiv, Ukraine for three weeks in August this year. I was taking photos, meeting artists, and gathering material for a book about popular art during the war.
Ukraine At War will also include about 20 new poems written by Ukrainian citizens from all over the country.
Ukraine At War (320 pages) is almost ready. My publisher (Interlink Books) and I are currently commissioning the Foreword and Introduction. The book will be out in early 2023, and a portion of the sale price will go to charity to help Ukraine.
Other Literary Projects in Progress
ABC of Film & Video Editing
Subtitled Practical & Creative Working Dictionary for Filmmakers & Film Editors, this is the sum of all I know about film editing, written after 35 years as a working film editor and 15 as a teacher of editing in Mexico and Spain. This book is currently being edited and will be published in early 2023.
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