Gordon S. Williams is an award-winning content creator whose projects have been screened at over seventy film festivals and earned distribution deals from entities such as Amazon Video and Shorts International.

Williams has presented “Beaumont’s Black History- In Moving Pictures” to regional universities that gives insight into the history of African Americans in Beaumont that never existed in a visual media via the award-winning short film “The Example” and LUTV Productions, “They Will Talk About Us: The Charlton-Pollard Story. Gordon has screened these projects at higher learning institutions such as Rice University, Louisiana State University, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Indiana University.

In June 2023, he received a “Special Congressional Recognition” from United States Representative Brian Babin for his work in sharing Beaumont’s history and his decades of work developing media professionals at Lamar University.

He has presented research on the 1943 Beaumont Race Riot and/or the Charlton-Pollard neighborhood at the East Texas Historical Association, 2023 Texas State Historical Association, the Southern Conference for African American Studies, and the 2024 Alliance for Texas History Symposium.

Gordon was the director/technical director for two national 2024 Telly Award winning projects for Joshua Productions for the game show “Family Knows Best” and a commercial campaign for a regional healthcare company.

In July 2024, these projects were added to the collection at The Black Film & Cinema Archive at Indiana University. The Black Film Center & Archive is the only archival repository in the world that is wholly dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available historically and culturally significant films by and about Black people.

In late 2024, Williams completed an award-winning short romantic drama that he wrote and produced titled “She Loves Her John” and an award-winning short documentary that he wrote, produce, and directed named “Shankleville: A Love That Still Stands.” Currently, he is in post-production on a documentary titled “No Place Like Home.” The project is about the origins of "Salsa At Cotton Creek Winery," a Latin Dance night in Southeast Texas, the community surrounding the event, and how the pandemic changed the lives of its patrons.

Gordon is a board member of the Boomtown Film Festival, the Center for Culture and History of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast, an advisor for the Jefferson County Historical Commission, and the Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP.)

Williams is the Lamar University Television Studio Operations Manager and adjunct instructor for LUTV News.