TANNER K WILLIAMS

Tanner K Williams is an award winning Los Angeles-based director and photographer. His work is deeply unapologetic, impossible to forget, and as honest as it is punk. What motivates him most is making work that actually leaves an impact, work that genuinely breaks through and remains poignant among the noise, work that brings you back over and over again—work that doesn’t suck, honestly.

Raised in hyper-orthodox Mormonism, Tanner uses the ironies and oxymorons of his upbringing to motivate genre-bending storytelling with an already unmistakable voice. To him, there is nothing unimportant in a frame or a narrative–no background object, makeup choice or miniscule detail left unconsidered. His work, sometimes with a whisper, other times with a siren, invites the viewer to reconsider how they see the world through a marriage of the incredibly serious and the wholeheartedly un-serious. The work idolizes the banal, pulls at the heartstrings, incites change, baits and switches, challenges the viewer, and makes you cringe and laugh simultaneously. Tanner’s very uninterested by being put in a box. Also, Tanner’s a real sweetheart.

This past year Tanner’s music video “Beat Bunny” for Povoa (feat. Madge) won best video at the British Arrows, Gold at the Young Director Awards, a D&AD Pencil, best music video and best performance at the Berlin Music Video Awards, and had Tanner awarded Best New Director at Shots as well as a gold screening at 1.4.

Awards/Shortlists

2026 British Arrows - Golden arrow (Beat bunny)

2026 Shots - GOLD - Best new director (Beat bunny)

2026 D&AD - Wooden pencil (choreography)

2026 1.4 - Gold music video (beat Bunny)

2026 Berlin music video festival - GOld Best music video (beat Bunny)

2026 Berlin music video festival - GOld Best performance (beat Bunny)

2026 young directors awards Gold screening - (Beat Bunny)

2026 Shots - Silver - best music video (beat Bunny)

2026 D&AD shortlist - editing (beat bunny)

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2025 d&AD - Wooden pencil award (Shiversucker)

2025 - Young Directors awards - Gold screening (Shiversucker)

2025 Satchi and satchi new creators showcase (shiversucker)

2025 young Arrows shortlist (Shiversucker)

2025 Shots Shortlist (Shiversucker)

2025 1.4 shortlist (Shiversucker)

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2024 CIclope - New talent in music video direction - gold (Shiversucker)

2024 CIclope - cinematography- gold (Shiversucker)

2024 CIclope - editing - Gold (Shiversucker)

Publications

King Kong Magazine Print Issue 15 - “Devendra Banhart” 2023

King Kong Magazine Print Issue 13 - “Benny Drama,” 2022

Off the Rails Print Issue 18 - “Hurt, Skepticism and Apathy,” 2021

King Kong Magazine Print Issue 12 - “Pseudo-Summer,” 2021

Paper magazine - “No Formula Could’ve Created Madge,” 2019

This Bitch Magazine - “Mad about Madge,” 2018

Inscape Literary Magazine - Brigham Young University, 2018

Screenings

2026 SXSW London (beat bunny)

2025 Flux festival