Indigenous Success Stories series
Bill comes from a background of acting in TV & movies. For TV shows such as The Sentinels, The X-Files, and films such as Free Willy, The X-Files movie, too many to mention. The last movie Bill was in is called Lake Placid where he acted as a silent background game warden actor.
Bill is known for picking up people and taking them shopping and on this one occasion he picked up a passenger who liked Bill’s life story so much that he made a documentary on Bill called The Importance of a Forgiving Heart: The Bill Williams Story: • The Importance of a Forgiving Heart: ... This debuted at the Salt Spring Film Festival in 2012.
Bill went on to start his own Film Production Company now called BGW FILM STUDIOS INC, and it is federally incorporated. He is working on a project now called Indigenous Success Stories series • BGW FILM STUDIOS Indigenous Success S... . He is focusing on the self-reliance and independence of the first nations people by creating documentary films that highlight students, filmmakers, actors, career professionals, teachers, students, singers, and more. These documentary films will be dedicated to all the children taken out of their homes, setting triumph over adversity.
Looking at Bill’s life, born with club feet, deaf in both ears and borderline retardation was only the beginning of his hardship that he had to deal with. First, taken out of his home at 3 years old, taken to residential school, almost killed in residential school. Taken out of residential school and brought to the supreme court to be made ward of the courts. He was then handed over to Social Service. Raised in the foster care system up to the age of 13 years old and then put on independent living.
This is only the spec of who Bill is as he endured so much in his life, through his endurance and many years of heart ache he wants to let young people know that whatever you go through you have the ability to endure and to thrive in the things you do and want to do, don’t let nobody stop you!