Nelson Walker III

Historia

Nelson Walker graduated from Brown University before receiving his MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University. His first film, iThemba | Hope, made in collaboration with Keefe Murren, was about an HIV+ choir from South Africa and aired on Sundance Channel. Nelson's cinematography has appeared in many highly lauded projects including The Fight (Edgeline Films), Chef Flynn (Dir. Cameron Yates), Dior and I (Dir. Frédéric Tcheng), Making a Murderer (Netflix), Iris (Maysles Films), Watchers of the Sky (Propeller Films), and The Gates (HBO). He serves as Chairman of the board of Maysles Documentary Center.

Películas

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Director of Photography
El quijotesco viaje de Nam June Paik, uno de los artistas asiáticos más famosos del siglo XX, que revolucionó el uso de la tecnología como lienzo artístico y profetizó tanto las tendencias fascistas como el entendimiento intercultural que surgiría del metaverso interconectado del mundo actual.
Sacred Cow: The Nutritional, Environmental and Ethical Case for Better Meat
Director of Photography
Una película sobre el debate actual acerca de la alimentación y la cría de ganado, que muestra que los alimentos de origen animal son nutritivos para los seres humanos y pueden criarse de forma beneficiosa para el medio ambiente.
Down a Dark Stairwell
Camera Operator
Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and discrimination in the eyes of the law.
Watchers of the Sky
Director of Photography
Five interwoven stories of remarkable courage from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Darfur to Syria, and from apathy to action.
Summer Pasture
Director of Photography
An intimate glimpse into the experiences of a young Tibetan family struggling to reconcile their traditional way of life with a rapidly modernizing world.
Lumo
Director
A young Congolese woman finds friendship in a hospital for rape survivors. Together they contemplate their future in a country beset by war.