Lucy Walker

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

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Lucy was born in London, United Kingdom, read English Language and Literature at New College, Oxford receiving first-class honours, 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.

While at NYU film school, Lucy also DJed, performing both solo and as a member of illbient ensemble Byzar, most frequently at the Soundlab. The album "Gaiatronyk Vs. The Cheap Robots" was a CMJ chart hit.

[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, a feature-length documentary 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 Award as well as overall Best Film Award, a Special Jury mention at Karlovy-Vary Film Festival, Audience Award at Sarasota International Film Festival, and nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, and for three Emmys (for Best Documentary, Best Directing, and Best Editing). She was named one of the "Top 25 New Faces In Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine.

In 2006, her second documentary feature film Blindsight premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, won the Panorama Publikumspreis, the Audience Award for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Audience Award Best Documentary at the American Film Institute AFI festival in Los Angeles, the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, was short-listed for the Academy Award for Best Documentary[1], and was nominated for Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards and Best Cinema Documentary at the Grierson Awards.

She recently interviewed Moby for a chapter in Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.

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  1. ^ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (November 15, 2006). 15 Docs Advance in 2006 Oscar Race. [1].