Colin Williams is a Northern Ireland film and television producer. Williams founded

Sixteen South Sixteen South is a Northern Irish production and distribution company that specialises in creating children's television programmes. Founded in Belfast in 2007 by Colin Williams, Sixteen South has partnered with major names in children's enter ...

in 2007 and since then has produced eleven shows including

Pajanimals ''Jim Henson's Pajanimals'' (a portmanteau of the words ''pajamas'' and ''animals'') is a children's television series created by Jeff Muncy and Alex Rockwell. The Pajanimals are characters that were made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop at The J ...

in partnership with

The Jim Henson Company The Jim Henson Company, Inc., formerly known as Muppets, Inc., Henson Associates, Inc., and Jim Henson Productions, Inc. (commonly referred to as Henson), is an American entertainment company located in Los Angeles, California. The company is kn ...

,Growth of 3,000%? Meet Britain's top tech startups
The Guardian

Big & Small ''Big & Small'' is a children's television series aimed at preschoolers following the lives of two very different best friends named Big and Small. ''Big & Small'' is a co-production between Kindle Entertainment and 3J's Productions produce ...

, Big City Park and

Sesame Tree ''Sesame Tree'' is an adaptation of the American children's television series, ''Sesame Street'', which was made entirely in Northern Ireland. The series was produced by Belfast based production company, Sixteen South and Sesame Workshop. The fi ...

in partnership with

Sesame Workshop Sesame Workshop (SW), originally known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American nonprofit organization and Television station, television company that has been responsible for the production of several educational children's ...

. He is currently producing ''

Lily's Driftwood Bay ''Lily's Driftwood Bay'' is a Northern Irish animated children's television series. Produced in Northern Ireland, the series premiered on Nick Jr. in the UK and Ireland on 5 May 2014 and it ended on 5 November 2017. It is created and produced ...

'', 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 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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