You're about to hear a lot about Roger Ross Williams. He's ready for his moment

There is prolific, and then there is Roger Ross Williams.

The Oscar-, Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, who became the first African American director to win an Academy Award in 2009 with his short film "Music by Prudence" (and earned another Oscar nomination for 2016's "Life, Animated"), already co-helmed an acclaimed doc about disco diva Donna Summer and directed episodes of "The 1619 Project" this year. This month, he returns with three more high-profile film and TV projects.

First, with the Netflix docuseries "Stamped From the Beginning" (premiering Sept. 9 at the Toronto Film Festival ahead of its fall streaming debut), Williams examines the origins of racism in America and why the past remains painfully present, adapting "How to Be an Anti-Racist," author Ibram X. Kendi's book of the same name.

Then, with the Apple TV+ docuseries "The Super Models" (Sept. 20), he takes viewers behind the scenes into the paradigm-shifting rise of Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford during the '80s and '90s, as the world-famous quartet share their stories with unprecedented intimacy and depth.

And after that, following its Sundance Film Festival premiere, Williams tells the larger-than-life story of Mexican American professional wrestler Saúl Armendáriz in "Cassandro" (in select theaters Sept. 15 and on Prime Video Sept. 22), with Gael García Bernal portraying the openly gay lucha libre icon. The film marks the director's narrative debut.

"I'm trying to find my"), a singer from Zimbabwe with a disability ("Music by Prudence") and a young man with autism who finds connection in Disney movies (""). Over videochat on a summer afternoon from his home in Amsterdam, where he splits time between upstate New York, Williams considered how each of his new projects reflects a piece of his own story.