Clay Walker

Clay Walker was the Director of Photography and editor on First Cinema's Performance Anxiety. He has been working on independent film and video projects for more than 17 years. Walker has produced, directed, photographed, edited, programmed and designed a variety of short and feature films, music videos, TV commercials, and game shows.

In the late 90's, Walker's ground-breaking film and multi-media work with acclaimed North Carolina swing band "The Squirrel Nut Zippers" earned him international acclaim and one platinum and two gold records for his efforts from the Recording Industry of America.

Considered to be the most elaborate CD ever created, Walker's ground-breaking interactive extravaganza on the Zippers' enhanced audio CD "Perennial Favorites" received "Best of Category" at the 1999 Show South Awards in Atlanta in the entertainment CD-ROM category. "Perennial" also received the Best of Show Award at ECD 2000 at Canada Music Week. CNN described "Perennial Favorites" as "Clay Walker's Sistine Chapel..." His interactive work on the Zippers' "Hot" album was chosen as interactive CD-ROM of the month by Apple Computers in June of 1996.

Walker also produced, directed, photographed and edited the acclaimed documentary "Post No Bills" on Los Angeles "guerilla" satirical political poster artist Robbie Conal. "Post No Bills" won numerous awards including first place at the Chicago International Film Festival. The documentary was also an official selection at Sundance, the New York Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Festival and numerous other festivals worldwide.

Walker's early film career began in Los Angeles associating with independent filmmaking legends Jean Pierre Gorin, Raul Ruiz, Nina Menkes, Greg Araki and Jon Jost. In addition to writing, directing & photographing numerous experimental short films, Walker also worked as an editor on Gorin's "Mi Vida Loca," aka "My Crazy Life," as well as working on the post-production of the feature "Highlander II - The Quickening." Walker also worked as a scriptwriter and reader for several Hollywood studios.

Before moving to Los Angeles, Walker lived in Brooklyn where he attended school at Laguardia Community College in Queens. There he studied commercial photography with Julio Nazzario and worked for several newspapers in Manhattan becoming a skilled street photographer and writer.

Prior to living in NYC, Walker studied architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before moving to Atlanta, Walker attended the Memphis College of Arts, on scholarship, where he expanded upon his talents as a painter, sculptor and sketch artist.

Walker currently resides in Atlanta where he owns and runs his own company, Plan B Productions, Inc. When time permits, Walker teaches computer-based video editing and graphic design at the Art Institute of Atlanta.

Walker has a degree in Film & TV Production from the prestigious School of Cinema at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Walker is an Adobe Certified Expert (A.C.E.) in Adobe After Effects.

Walker has lectured on film and video at colleges, museums, film festivals, the Smithsonian, Sundance, the Director's Guild of America and the American Film Institute.