In 2008,Williams began collaborating with students at Georgia State University and Savannah College of Art and Design to examine the effects of gentrification during the last days before public housing projects were demolished (in the hope that mixed-income communities could be built in their place). But as Atlanta underwent its own transformations, so did Williams’s documentary. By 2011, the production was on hiatus and the film’s fate uncertain. Now, The Atlanta Way has captured the attention of media outlets and celebrities alike. The film is nearing completion, with a tentative release set for this fall and the tag line: “There’s a right way, there’s a wrong way and then there’s The Atlanta Way.”