William S. Tribell

Birthplace

Frankfort, Kentucky, USA

Biography

William S. Tribell is a multimedia artist known for Dwellers (2020), The Evening Hour (2020), and his work with the EMMY winning The Dead Unknown (2015). An actor, writer, and director, his short film Girl in the Red Dress (2020) debuted at the 2020 Cannes Short Film Festival. While living in Budapest Hungary, his short film Budapest (2014) garnered worldwide attention, becoming an early catalyst in the still growing unrest against the curbed civil liberties, and limitations applied to artistic expression legislated by the Hungarian government. As a Journalist, Tribell has had thousands of articles and photographs published, receiving a Lighthouse Media Award in 2015. He is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet, with nominations in the United States for Poet Laureate of Kentucky in 2017 and the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame in 2018. As a poet, he was featured in the film Poetry is Dead! (2015). His collection of poetry, "A Duke's Mixture and a Hill of Beans" received sponsorship for submission to the Pulitzer Prize Nomination in Poetry for 2020 and was accepted. William S. Tribell thinks sushi is great, Koalas freak him out, and his favorite color is green.