After more than 15 years of development and cross-continental filming, American filmmaker James Williams is preparing to wrap production on his genre-defying thriller *Squatta* on location in Jamaica, with a planned theatrical and streaming release scheduled for this October. The 50-year-old director, a retired U.S. Army major and Howard University graduate, first launched principal photography on the project in his hometown of Warrenton, Georgia back in June 2025, building a story rooted in his longstanding admiration for Jamaican crime cinema and firsthand observations of Caribbean informal settlements.