William is an Cinema Studies Scholar and a professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. This mainly involves him researching about various aspects of contemporary cinema. He has published numerous essays in journals and edited collections, and is also the author of The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (with David H. Fleming). Furthermore, William is also a maker of zero- to low-budget films, all produced under the umbrella of Beg Steal Borrow.