MollyLlama Studios®

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MollyLlama Studios
— Podcast —

As The World Works

A video podcast on leadership, resilience, and the work that holds. Built in a closet in the first months of Covid. Still hosting. Who's my next guest?
Dedicated to Sarah Lee Williamson
— Executive Produced —

DEADLAND

Executive produced. SXSW 2023 world premiere. Streaming on Amazon Prime.
— Platform —

Texas Founded.
Texas Funded.
Texas Filmed.®

Lean certification platform for Texas-based production. SaaS prototype live.
USPTO Reg. 8,015,749 · Class 41
— Live AI —

SamtaClaude

Biweekly unscripted comedy. Claude is system-prompted not to agree with Sam. One guy built it. The other one can't turn it off.
— Short Film —

I Bet You're Wondering
How I Got Here

Comedy short. Bonus Features production in association with MollyLlama Studios. Distributed by Omeleto. Sam credited as Executive Producer.
419K views · 26K likes
— Anchor IP —

Highway 118™

The studio's anchor IP. The brand vessel for an expanding body of work — the current slate is a trilogy of films in partnership with Jayson Woodward's original memoirs.
Before We Were Found · Borderlines · The Heart Remembers
— Documentary —

The Back Back
Story

Michael Preece tribute. Life rights executed. Trailer released. Final cut in finishing.
Family heirloom format
— Feature —

The Fix

Feature with series extension rights. Mid-1970s power and sports gambling.
The Godfather · Billions · Succession
— Series —

The Unbearable Irony
of Sam I Am

Limited series. Six episodes × forty-five minutes. Prestige drama. Treatment locked.
— Brand —

Texilla™ Integrated

Federally registered spirits brand. Born inside the Tequila Mule screenplay. Mexican craft, Texas posture.
USPTO Serial 99/030,888 · Class 33
— Feature —

Tequila Mule

Action-comedy feature paired with TEXILLA ™ spirits. Dual-IP architecture — film and brand from the same vessel.
$3.5M raise · $6.7M pre-money
Anchor IP
Highway 118™
The brand vessel
Executive Produced
DEADLAND
SXSW · Amazon Prime
Feature
Tequila Mule
Feature + Halo
Feature
The Fix
Feature + series rights
Series
The Unbearable Irony
of Sam I Am
Limited series · 6 × 45
Documentary
The Back Back Story
Michael Preece tribute
Short Film
IBYWHIGH
Bonus Features · Omeleto
Podcast
As The World Works
For Sarah Lee · Still hosting
Live AI
SamtaClaude Live AI
Conversational IP
Brand
Texilla Integrated
Spirits · film-as-brand
Platform
TF3
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The Operator

Sam Williamson.

Winter 2021. I had just come home. Set down my bag. Seven years at Spire, and in that moment I knew — clearly, quietly, without drama — that season was done.

I sat down at my desk. Something in me said go watch the podcast you did with Michael Preece.

Before my finger hit play, my phone buzzed.

Michael Preece.

I picked up laughing. Said — Michael, I was literally just about to watch you. What's going on?

We caught up. And then he said: "I really miss being on set. I'd like to make one more thing before I leave the planet."

"Before I leave the planet."

Everything in me went to making that happen.

Michael Preece. The director who gave me my first take, my first "action," my first shot on television — Walker, Texas Ranger, 1994. A man who had spent a lifetime behind the camera — True Grit, Walker Texas Ranger, decades of American television — telling me quietly that he wasn't done yet.

I couldn't say no to that. I didn't want to.

So I started MollyLlama Studios. Because some things don't fit inside a job description. Some things are just a call you answer.

For four years I stewarded his story. Produced the film. Sat across from him in that chair and watched him remember who he was.

Halfway through the shoot, Michael handed me a piece of paper. A fully executed agreement assigning me his life rights to produce his story. No ask. No negotiation. He just handed it to me.

Michael Preece passed in February 2025.

The film is still being finished. The format is still being decided. None of that mattered on the day he passed.

His family called me.

They had watched this trailer together at his celebration of life. Every one of them. And what they described — the joy, the tears, the recognition of seeing someone they loved honored the way he deserved to be honored — I wasn't prepared for that. You can't prepare for that.

They told me it had become a family heirloom.

I've worked on a lot of things in my life. I've built programs, managed portfolios, closed deals. I know what a return looks like.

That phone call was the return. That was the whole return. Nothing before or since has felt like that.

That's MollyLlama Studios. Not a production company that chases projects. A steward that gets chosen.

Serving. Stewardship. Story.

— Sam Williamson, Dallas

Contact

Direct line. No intermediaries.

For serious inquiries, partnership conversations, and press — direct to Sam.

sam@mollyllamastudios.com

Dallas · Texas · United States

More on request.

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