Jeremy Walker(II)

Began, pre-Sarah Lawrence, as a production assistant in Hollywood, mentored by producer James Katz on his films Nobodys Fool and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Served, during college, as an intern for Manhattan movie publicist Cara White, graduating into a full-time position at what became Clein + White which ultimately became Clein + Walker (The Blair Witch Project) until founding, in 1999, Jeremy Walker + Associates, a boutique agency that operated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan until 2008. Walker and his staff helped dozens of independent filmmakers bring their work to market at Sundance, Toronto, TriBeCa and SXSW, while aggressively publicizing a wide range of unit projects, theatrical releases and festival projects for such companies as Lionsgate (NYC premiere of the first SAW movie, The Descent, the Devil's Rejects, Monsters Ball, American Psycho), ContentFilm (The Cooler, Thank You for Smoking) and IFC Films (Transamerica). Assignments from Warner Home Entertainment included a collection of films by Stanley Kubrick to events and campaigns for such classics as Amadeus to the Outsiders to Cruising. After returning to Malibu in 2008, covered movies, specifically awards season for the print weekly Malibu Surfside News; served as unit publicist for four features, including the Fox Searchlight comedy Cedar Rapids; worked with "Blair Witch" star Heather Donahue on publicizing her memoir Growgirl; represented several features as they went on the market at Toronto, SXSW, Sundance and Seattle, including the Sundance 2013 title Newlyweeds and its subsequent theatrical and on-demand release;served as unit publicist on two Bay Area productions, The Boat Builder and Cardinal X; in spring 2014, represented the Sci-Fi "Polaroid thriller" Time Lapse at SIFF; produced, with shooter-editor Harry Pallenberg, several filmmaker videos, placing them over a number of social and editorial platforms, often as an element of an accompanying traditional PR campaign.