About John Walker

John Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and respected documentary filmmakers.

His films have been widely broadcast and have appeared at major international film festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London and Tokyo. He has received 60 Canadian and international nominations and awards for his writing, directing, producing and cinematography, 22 of those from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. In addition, Walker received the coveted Donald Brittain Award for best social/political documentary.

In 2018, he was honoured with a Hot Docs Focus On Retrospective and a Canadian Society of Cinematographers Masters Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Cinematography.

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