Christopher K. Walker

Florida native Christopher K. Walker had an inkling of his future career as a filmmaker even when he was just a kid with an interest in skateboarding. He and his friends began filming their stunts using his father's VHS camcorder, eventually graduating to more and more sophisticated technology. By 2006, Walker was editing their videos into a film he called "Share the Streets," which he showed at Ft. Lauderdale's Cinema Paradiso. After graduating from the University of Central Florida, Walker relocated to Brooklyn, where he began working as an assistant editor at Blowback Productions on projects like the documentary "Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags" (HBO, 2009). By 2012, Walker was moving up the ranks at Blowback, co-producing and editing the documentary "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island" (HBO, 2012). It was around this time that Walker decided to team up with a colleague at the production company, Michael Beach Nichols. Nichols and Walker formed their own company, No Weather, and set to work on a film documenting Brooklyn's "flexing" dance scene, "Flex is Kings" (2013). Not long after, the two filmmakers became fascinated with a news story about a prominent white supremacist who was buying up land in a small North Dakota town in an attempt to take it over. They flew to the town and shot enough footage to create a trailer for a potential film based on the ongoing situation, and soon used the piece to secure funding. After recording the drama firsthand, they edited the footage into the documentary "Welcome to Leith" (2015), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.