Luke Walker is a British/Australian

film maker Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screenwritin ...

. His 2008 documentary film, '' Beyond Our Ken'' explored the group Kenja Communication, a controversial Australian "self-empowerment" organisation. It garnered Walker an AACTA Award for Best Direction in a Documentary nomination (shared with co-director Melissa Maclean). ''Beyond Our Ken'' was also nominated for Best Documentary at the

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) is an association of film criticism, cinema critics and film review, reviewers. It includes journalists in "media, television, major national and state papers, radio, national and state, online and fr ...

and also by the

Australian Film Institute The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Cinema of Australia, Australian film indu ...

. Walker's 2013 documentary feature ''Lasseter's Bones'' explores a fabled seam of gold said to be lost in Central Australia, the notorious ''

Lasseter's Reef Lasseter's Reef refers to the purported discovery, announced by Lewis Harold Bell Lasseter, Harold Bell Lasseter in 1929 and 1930, of a fabulously rich gold deposit in a remote and desolate corner of central Australia. Lasseter's accounts of the ...

''. The film follows Harold Bell Lasseter's elderly son on his last desert expedition to find his father's lost gold. ''Lasseter's Bones'' was nominated for Best Documentary at the

. Walker's 2017 documentary'' PACmen'' follows the Super-PACs backing Ben Carson's ill-fated presidential campaign. ''PACmen ''premièred at

Hot Docs The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America. The event takes place annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 27th edition of the festival took place online throughout May and June ...

Canadian International Film Festival in May 2017. Walker was born in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

, West Midlands, England, and is a graduate of the

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (FFAM). It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Luke Living people British filmmakers Year of birth missing (living people) Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands Australian filmmakers