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Tommy Walker

Roles: Director

Tommy Walker has produced films such as With All Deliberate Speed (2004), Mandela in America (1991), Tutu and Franklin: A Journey Towards Peace (1998). In 2005, Walker co-directed and produced the feature length theatrical documentary, God Grew Tired of Us, about refugees from war-torn Sudan, their subsequent immigration to America, and their experience in a Post 9/11 world. The film won Best Documentary as well as the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Walker is currently a Executive Producer and partner with Freemind Ventures, the production company responsible for The Blacklist Project, an HBO documentary series which reveals the diverse experience of being black in America through portrait style interviews with leading African-American figures.

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God Grew Tired of Us

(US, 2006, 89min)