IN FOCUS: LUCY WALKER
Master class: How to tell a story?
This year, as part of the In FOCUS program, we present British director Lucy Walker, Emmy Award winner and owner of two Oscar nominations for documentary film. Her film Waste Land (2010), among many others, won the Audience Award at the Free Zone in 2011. Lucy Walker will present her latest documentary, Bring Your Own Brigade (2021), at the 17th Free Zone, and after the screening on Sunday, November 7, in the Belgrade Cultural Center Hall, the audience will have the opportunity to attend a master class held by Zoom.
Lucy is known as a director whose films unmistakably communicate with the audience, and during the master class she will talk to visitors about the process of working on a documentary film and discover what happens when the recorded material finally arrives for editing.
The films FOCUS will also include the films Waste Land (2010), Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011) and The Crash Reel (2013).
Lucy Walker is an Emmy-winning British film director who has twice been nominated for an Academy Award and is renowned for creating riveting, character-driven nonfiction that delivers emotionally and narratively. Lucy’s films include feature documentaries The Crash Reel (2013), Waste Land (2010), Countdown to Zero (2010), Blindsight (2006), Devil’s Playground (2002) and short films, notably The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011) and The Lion’s Mouth Opens (2014), as well as television, including twenty episodes of Nickelodeon Blue’s Clues.