Kurt Walker is a director, picture editor, and assistant editor from Vancouver, B.C. As a director, he makes movies concerned with place, connection, and time. In 2014 his debut film Hit 2 Pass won doclisboa’s Universidade Lusíada Award for Best International Competition Film. His latest film, I Thought the World of You was dubbed “A truly beautiful lyrical essay” by Guy Maddin. The film also won top awards at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and Torino's Seeyousound Film Festival.
Walker is an MFA graduate of York University, and an alumni of the TIFF Filmmaker Lab. His work has recently been subject to complete retrospectives at The Cinematheque in Vancouver and Festival Ecrã in Rio de Janeiro.
Kurt currently resides in Toronto, ON, where he is developing his next projects and teaches filmmaking at Toronto Metropolitan University.