Los Angeles Program Faculty

J.T. Walker's recent short film, " Passengers," screened at over 30 film festivals in the U.S. and abroad, among them Sundance, Telluride, the Hamptons, Karlovy Vary, and AFI/Los Angeles. His prior film, "Oldtimers" won the Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco Int'l Film Festival, "Best Short Documentary" at the Krakow Int'l Film Festival, and screened at numerous other festivals both in the U.S. and abroad. It also aired on local PBS stations on the West Coast. As a screenwriter, Walker co-adapted Joey Pantoliano's best-selling memoir Who's Sorry Now, for Holedigger Films, and is currently adapting Kevin Canty's first novel, Into the Great Wide Open, for Tiny Dancer Films, producers of Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner "Forty Shades of Blue." He is attached to direct.