Lucy Walker

Lucy Walker is a British film director, who largely makes theatrical feature documentaries. She was born in London and received first class honours in English Language and Literature at Oxford University. After her undergraduate degree Walker took the graduate film program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. There she received an MFA, as well as winning a contest to direct a video for the Alt Country band the Cowboy Junkies, as well as directing three award-winning short films.

In New York, Walker took up DJing and formed a part of the mid-nineties 'illbient' electronica scene.

Walker directed two episodes of the Nickelodeon children's TV programme Blue's Clues that were nominated for Daytime Emmy awards in 2001 and 2002.

Her first feature length documentary Devil's Playground - Amish Teenagers in the Modern World, looked at Amish teenagers during the season of 'rumspringa'. The cloistered youngsters encounter the modern world with all it's temptations and must decide if they want to remain a part of the community. The film won a Special Mention - Best Documentary at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2002, the Audience Award at the 2002 Saratoga Film Festival as well as being nominated for an Emmy in the News & Documentary Emmy Awards category and an Independent Spirit Award, both in 2003.

The inspiring Blindsight follows a group of six blind Tibetan teenagers as they attempt to climb a Himalayan mountain with the blind American mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer. The young Tibetans, who suffer abuse for their disability from their countrymen, climb mountains both physical and personal in this emotionally charged film. The movie won the Audience Award at AFI Fest 2006 and the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2007, it was also nominated for the Audience Award for Best Film at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival.

Filmography

Lucy Walker - filmography

Waste Land on DVD (2010)
Starring: Vik Muniz
Director: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley
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An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of ..read more »

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Countdown To Zero - Blu-ray (2010)
Director: Lucy Walker
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Conventional wisdom has it that the prospect of nuclear war subsided with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, but filmmaker Lucy Walker illustrates how the nuclear threat has only grown in unexpected ways and moved in new directions in this documentary. There are 23,000 ..read more »

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Countdown to Zero on DVD (2010)
Director: Lucy Walker
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During the Cold War, nothing loomed as large in the public mind as the bomb. When the Soviet Empire collapsed, the bomb became a symbol of another era. Naively we felt the danger had passed. In recent years, the threat of nuclear proliferation has grown more urgent, and the political will to ..read more »

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Blindsight on DVD (2008)
Starring: Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso
Director: Lucy Walker
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Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, "Blindsight" follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge--made all the more ..read more »

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Lucy Walker facts

5 most recent films

Waste Land - 4.0 stars
Countdown To Zero - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Countdown to Zero - 3.0 stars
Blindsight - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Waste Land - 4.0 stars
Countdown to Zero - 3.0 stars
Blindsight - 3.0 stars
Countdown To Zero - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Countdown To Zero - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Blindsight - 3.0 stars
Countdown to Zero - 3.0 stars
Waste Land - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

none - 2 times - show films
Gyenshen - 1 times - show films
Michael Brown - 1 times - show films
Jeff Evans - 1 times - show films
Charley Mace - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Karen Harley - 2 times - show films

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