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Lucy Walker

British film director

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Born: 1970
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Birthplace: London
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Occupation: film director
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, film producer
, director
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Education: New York University Tisch School of the Arts
, Westminster School
Languages spoken, written or signed: English
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Lucy Walker is an English 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 the Peabody Award winning Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (2023). She has 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.

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Website: lucywalkerfilm.com language: English
Given name: Lucy
Sex or gender: female
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2024-06-24
2.seventh-row.com/a-history-of-women-directors-at-the-cannes-film-festival/
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Floruit: 1996
Family name: Walker
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)(January 24, 2012) for work: The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom · statement is subject of: 84th Academy Awards · together with: Kira Carstensen
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Social media followers: 18,620(February 5, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 373951375
18,464(March 1, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 373951375
18,041(January 2, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 373951375
17,214(May 10, 2018) x (twitter) numeric user id: 373951375
Awards: Fulbright Scholarship
Related category: Category:Films directed by Lucy Walker category contains: film directed by this person
Participant in: 2010 Cannes Film Festival
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1.seventh-row.com/a-history-of-women-directors-at-the-cannes-film-festival/
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