Luke Walker is a British/Australian film maker. His 2008 documentary film, Beyond Our Ken explored the group Kenja Communication, a controversial Australian "self-empowerment" organisation. It garnered Walker an AACTA Award for Best Direction in a Documentary nomination (shared with co-director Melissa Maclean). Beyond Our Ken was also nominated for Best Documentary at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and also by the Australian Film Institute.[1]
Walker's 2013 documentary feature Lasseter's Bones explores a fabled seam of gold said to be lost in Central Australia, the notorious Lasseter's Reef.[2] The film follows Harold Bell Lasseter's elderly son on his last desert expedition to find his father's lost gold.[3]
Lasseter's Bones was nominated for Best Documentary at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.[4]
Walker's 2017 documentary PACmen follows the Super-PACs backing Ben Carson's ill-fated presidential campaign.[5] PACmen premièred at Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival in May 2017.[6]
Walker was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, and is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts.[7]