Lucy Walker

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Lucy Walker (born in London, United Kingdom) is a screenwriter and film director, mostly of theatrical feature documentaries.

1 Biography

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Lucy was born in London and graduated with first class honours from New College, Oxford with an MA Oxon in literature, and directed theatre. She won a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the graduate film program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she won a contest to direct a video for Cowboy Junkies, directed three award-winning short films and received an MFA. She has three sisters; Emma, Sophie and Beth. She currently lives in London.

[edit] Career

Lucy's directing credits include Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, for which she was twice nominated for Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Directing, and Devil's Playground - Amish Teenagers in the Modern World about the struggles of Amish teenagers during the period of rumspringa. Financed by HBO, Wellspring and Channel 4, Devil's Playground premiered at Sundance Film Festival and went on to many accolades and awards, including winning Sony-AFI digital Best Documentary and overall Best Film, a special jury mention at Karlovy-Vary Film Festival, audience award at Sarasota Film Festival, and nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, and for three Emmys (for Best Documentary, Best Directing, and Best Editing).

[edit] Trivia

While at NYU film school, Lucy moonlighted as a DJ, performing both solo and as a member of illbient ensemble Byzar, most frequently at the Soundlab. Lucy's brunch set at the 24HourSound at Tim Sweet's RV on 6th and B became a classic 90s mix tape.