Jeremy Walker(II)
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Began, pre-Sarah Lawrence, as a production assistant in Hollywood,
mentored by producer James Katz on his films Nobodys Fool and Scenes
from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Served, during college, as an
intern for Manhattan movie publicist Cara White, graduating into a
full-time position at what became Clein + White which ultimately became
Clein + Walker (The Blair Witch Project) until founding, in 1999,
Jeremy Walker + Associates, a boutique agency that operated on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan until 2008. Walker and his staff helped
dozens of independent filmmakers bring their work to market at
Sundance, Toronto, TriBeCa and SXSW, while aggressively publicizing a
wide range of unit projects, theatrical releases and festival projects
for such companies as Lionsgate (NYC premiere of the first SAW movie,
The Descent, the Devil's Rejects, Monsters Ball, American Psycho),
ContentFilm (The Cooler, Thank You for Smoking) and IFC Films
(Transamerica). Assignments from Warner Home Entertainment included a
collection of films by Stanley Kubrick to events and campaigns for such
classics as Amadeus to the Outsiders to Cruising. After returning to
Malibu in 2008, covered movies, specifically awards season for the
print weekly Malibu Surfside News; served as unit publicist for four
features, including the Fox Searchlight comedy Cedar Rapids; worked
with "Blair Witch" star Heather Donahue on publicizing her memoir
Growgirl; represented several features as they went on the market at
Toronto, SXSW, Sundance and Seattle, including the Sundance 2013 title
Newlyweeds and its subsequent theatrical and on-demand release;served
as unit publicist on two Bay Area productions, The Boat Builder and
Cardinal X; in spring 2014, represented the Sci-Fi "Polaroid thriller"
Time Lapse at SIFF; produced, with shooter-editor Harry Pallenberg,
several filmmaker videos, placing them over a number of social and
editorial platforms, often as an element of an accompanying traditional
PR campaign.