Third Wheel

TimTim, a custom-built ai satnav, is more interested in navigating his creator's relationship than the road.

  • Kris Williams
    Director
  • Kris Williams
    Writer
  • Bex Bangay
    Producer
  • Kris Williams
    Producer
  • Dennis Herdman
    Key Cast
  • Leah Fletcher
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 14 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 26, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4k
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Uni of Bristol
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Kris Williams

Kris Williams is a writer / director of short films, and composer of music for film / TV / media.

At the heart of Williams' work is a fascination with transformation. Whether through love, trauma, obsession, or revelation, his stories follow characters whose understanding of themselves is irrevocably altered. The result is cinema that is unsettling, compassionate, and psychologically rich, inviting audiences to question not only what they are seeing, but why they believe it.

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Director Statement

As a writer-director Kris is drawn to stories that explore the fragile boundary between reality and perception. His work blends psychological drama, horror, and fantasy to examine characters caught between the worlds they inhabit and the worlds they create to survive.

Across his projects, Williams is fascinated by the hidden forces that shape human behaviour: fear, obsession, guilt, longing, identity, and the stories people tell themselves to make sense of their lives. His protagonists are often ordinary individuals facing extraordinary internal crises, navigating moral ambiguity while searching for meaning, connection, or redemption.