Colin Williams is a Northern Ireland film and television producer.
Williams founded
Sixteen South
Sixteen South is a company creating, producing and distributing television for children.
Founded in Belfast in 2007 by Colin Williams, they currently employ over 100 people and have partnered with major names in children's entertainment, co-pr ...
in 2007 and since then has produced eleven shows including
Pajanimals
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in partnership with
The Jim Henson Company
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,
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The Guardian Big & Small,
Big City Park and
Sesame Tree
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in partnership with
Sesame Workshop. He is currently producing ''
Lily's Driftwood Bay'',
[ which will soon air in over 100 countries and premiered in May 2014. He was one of the finalists in the ]Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
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Founded in 1986 in Milwaukee as a single award, as of 2016 twenty-five pro ...
Programme in 2013, as well as being named as one of Northern Ireland’s leaders in business.Entrepreneurs go about their business with the bright idea
Belfast Telegraph
References
External links
Sixteen South website
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Living people
Irish producers
Year of birth missing (living people)