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Set up by filmmakers Stephen Walker and Sally George in 2006, Walker George Films is a production company dedicated to making the sort of high-quality films (documentaries, drama documentaries, and dramas) which have won Stephen and Sally widespread praise over many years of filmmaking for the BBC, Channel 4, and ITV.

Director: Stephen Walker has directed 24 films for both the BBC and Channel 4, including Young@Heart, a documentary feature film about an American chorus of pensioners who sing rock music, which was released by Twentieth Century Fox in US cinemas in April 2008 and opens in the UK and across Europe in October. The film has won awards in numerous film festivals around the world, including Paris, Sydney, Los Angeles, Nashville and Atlanta.

Other recent films include A Boy Called Alex; Hiroshima, A Day That Shook The World, nominated in 2004 for three Emmys including Best Director and Best Cinematography, winner of an Emmy for Best Music and Sound, winner of the National Geographic Cine Golden Eagle Award; and Faking It: Punk to Conductor, winner of a 2003 BAFTA and both the Montreux Rose D'Or and International Press Prizes for Best Documentary. His drama films include Prisoners in Time, starring John Hurt (winner of the Writer's Guild award for Best Television Drama). Stephen was voted by the industry as one of the UK's top ten television directors of 2008, according to Broadcast magazine.

Producer/Director: Sally George has directed and produced 17 films for the BBC and Channel Four, including the critically-acclaimed Brothers and Sisters in Love (ITV), Whatever Happened to Susi, which won the Prix D'Argent at the Cannes Fipa Films Festival, and No Time to Say Goodbye, winner of the Judges Prize at the Festival dei Popoli, Florence. She was the series producer on The Human Face with John Cleese, nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Factual Series. Her two films on poetry, Essential Poems for Britain and Essential Poems for Christmas (both BBC2) featured, among other actors, Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Jack Dee, Rhys Ifans, Dougray Scott, John Hurt, Sheila Hancock and Liza Tarbuck. (‘Touched by inspiration...fresh, immediate and, yes, essential’, The Times).

For more information, visit the Walker George Films website.

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