Person
Lucy Walker
Directing · Born 1970-01-01 · London, England, UK
Biography
Lucy Walker (born 1970; London) is an British documentary film director. She has directed the feature documentaries Devil's Playground (2002), Blindsight (2006), Waste Land (2010), Countdown to Zero (2010), The Crash Reel (2013), Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (2017), Bring Your Own Brigade (2021), and Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (2023). She has also directed the short films The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011) and The Lion's Mouth Opens (2014). Waste Land was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
Known for
Blue's Clues
Director
Independent Lens
Director
How to Change Your Mind
Executive Producer
The New Yorker Presents
Director
Countdown to Zero
Director
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Executive Producer
Waste Land
Director
Half the Picture
Self
The Crash Reel
Writer
Why Did You Kill Me?
Producer
Filmography
- 2024Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa SherpaExecutive Producer
- 2023Of Night and Light: The Story of Iboga and IbogaineProducer
- 2022How to Change Your MindExecutive Producer
- 2021Bring Your Own BrigadeDirector
- 2021Why Did You Kill Me?Producer
- 2020Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women's GymnasticsDirector
- 2018Half the PictureSelf
- 2017Oh, What a Beautiful City (A City Symphony)Director
- 2017Bridge PoemDirector
- 2017Ram Dass, Going HomeExecutive Producer
- 2017Buena Vista Social Club: AdiosDirector
- 2016#LikeAGirlDirector
- 2016The Vodou HealerDirector
- 2016PlayStation: Makers & Gamers - Street FighterDirector
- 2016The New Yorker PresentsDirector
- 2016A History of Cuban DanceDirector
- 2015Feel Every SmileDirector
- 2014Project DanielDirector
- 2014The Lion's Mouth OpensDirector
- 2013Daredevil on a SnowmobileDirector
- 2013David Hockney in the Now: In Six MinutesDirector
- 2013The Crash ReelWriter
- 2013The Rein of Mary KingDirector
- 2013The Red PillDirector
- 2013Crooked LinesDirector
- 2012Focus Forward: Short Films, Big IdeasDirector
- 2012Make Haste SlowlyDirector
- 2012The ContendersDirector
- 2012Secrets of the Mongolian ArchersDirector
- 2011The Tsunami and the Cherry BlossomDirector
- 2010Countdown to ZeroDirector
- 2010Waste LandDirector
- 2006BlindsightDirector of Photography
- 2002Devil's PlaygroundDirector
- 1999Independent LensDirector
- 1998Blue's Clues: Blue's BirthdayDirector
- 1996Blue's CluesDirector
- —InterspeciesDirector
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