John Walker

CINEMATOGRAPHER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER

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John Walker is one of Canada's finest director/cinematographers working in the documentary genre, and his films have won international acclaim. From his fiction film collaboration, A Winter Tan, described by a "Globe and Mail" critic as "unlike any other film anywhere" to his personal exploration of myth and imagination in The Fairy Faith, Walker defies conventional subjects and approaches. With his provocative film Passage he challenged the form with a complex mix of fiction and documentary - Martin Knelman of The Toronto Star wrote "One of the great triumphs in Canadian documentary film history." With his latest, A Drummer's Dream, Walker delivers a film that lifts you into another dimension of pure joy and exhilaration.John began his career in 1970 as a photographer in Montreal, Quebec. His photographs were published, collected and exhibited internationally. In 1975 he began working as a cinematographer and in 1981 he was awarded full membership in the Canadian Society of Cinematographers.His directorial debut was in 1982 with Chamber - Tracks & Gestures. The biography of artist and avant-garde filmmaker Jack Chambers won numerous awards including , American Film Festival Blue Ribbon, Houston Film Festival Bronze, Canadian Film Editors Guild Award, Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award, Canadian Film & Televison Award and Yorkton Film Festival - Best of Festival.Since then he has credits on over sixty films working as a Producer, Director and cinematographer. Walker's films have been widely broadcast and have appeared at the major international film festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin and London. From the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television he has received seventeen nominations and awards including the coveted Donald Brittain Award for best social/political documentary - Utshimassits: Place of the Boss; best documentary director - The Hand of Stalin; and best feature documentary Strand - Under the Dark Cloth, a personal portrait of his mentor, thephotographer/filmmaker Paul Strand. His film on the Cape Breton coal miners choir, Men of the Deeps, won three Gemini awards including best performing arts, best documentary photography, best sound and a best director nomination. The film garnered three million viewers in Canada alone.His passionate commitment to the documentary form led him to co-found the Documentary Organization of Canada (formerly Canadian Independent Film Caucus). Walker has conducted master classes across the country and has mentored numerous emerging filmmakers. He has also served as guest programmer for the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. - IMDb Mini Biography By: John Walker

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Releases by Year

John Walker on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1983 to 2019. See the full graphs of the number of John Walker movies released per year from 1996 till 2019.

Top Genres

John Walker works mostly in Documentary Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 74% of John Walker movies are Documentary Genre movies. See Top Genres that John Walker worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that John Walker has worked on is 7.2.

7.2 / 10

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Documentary,History
Referendum: Take 2 (1996)

A film about the second referendum to decide if the province of Quebec would declare independence from Canada.

8.1/1077 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A rare and unique assembly of some of the greatest drummers in the world. Explosive talent, passion, humour and irresistible personality come together in a magical setting when seven ...

7.3/1084 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Paul Strand (1890-1976) remains a curiously shrouded and paradoxical figure. While passionately devoted to humanity, he was happiest in the isolation of the darkroom.

7.1/1081 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Inspired by the NYT bestselling book, this lively philosophical investigation into the rise of asshole behaviour across the world asks: What does it mean to be an asshole, and more importantly, how do we stop their proliferation?

6.4/1081 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Documentary,Drama,History
Passage (2008)

6.2/1090 min

Available in 3 platform(s).

A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams

/1087 min

Available in 1 platform(s).