Bio

Tommy Walker is a veteran producer and director of documentary films and commercials. He produced The List Series films – a series of nine documentaries that illustrates the diverse experiences of being black, Latino, LGBTQ+, woman – in America through portrait style interviews with trailblazing individuals across society. The films were distributed by HBO and PBS’s American Masters. In 2019, he produced the acclaimed Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, a moving portrait of the Nobel laureate novelist and how she gave voice to the black experience in America through her writing. Toni premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently released in theaters nationwide by Magnolia Pictures; the film had its international premiere at IDFA 2019, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Most recently he co-directed KAEPERNICK & AMERICA, an official Tribeca Film Festival selection, about identity, racial turmoil, and what led Colin Kaepernick to take a kneel in protest.

In 2006, Walker co-directed God Grew Tired of Us, a documentary based on the story of a group of “lost boy” refugees from war torn Sudan, their subsequent immigration to America, and their experience in a post 9/11 world. The film won Best Documentary, as well as the Audience Award, at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently released in theaters. In 2004, he produced the acclaimed primetime Emmy nominated feature length documentary With All Deliberate Speed for Discovery Communications’ Doc Series. The film portrays the brave souls who fought to integrate America before the civil rights movement began as we know it. In his early career Walker was the production manager for the PBS documentary Mandela in America, which followed Nelson Mandela on his first visit to the United States after being released from prison, and prior to that worked on the PBS documentary Tutu and Franklin: A Journey towards Peace, which followed Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu, John Hope Franklin and 21 students to the 21st Century Summit on Race and Reconciliation.

Walker is an active commercial producer and director with Strange Pilgrim Productions and Triple Threat TV. He has created short films and commercial spots for Toyota, Cadillac, Chrysler, The Home Depot, Hewlett Packard and more that have been cut into national and international campaigns.

He is also a Principal of 3:08 Collective, an I&D consulting firm that works with companies and their leaders to facilitate cultural change in workplaces.

Tommy Walker is the son of Right Reverend Bishop John T. Walker, the first African American Episcopal Bishop in Washington DC. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelors of Arts in History. He lives in New York City.