About Us
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.
We are also committed to working with established and new talent across a range of television and feature film genres.
Stephen Walker
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 theaters in April 2008 and around the world over the following year. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 and has won 23 audience awards in numerous other film festivals, including Paris, Sydney, Warsaw, Los Angeles, Nashville and Atlanta. Young@Heart is the highest-ever grossing British documentary released in the US.
Other recent films include: A Boy Called Alex, a Channel 4 documentary about a 16 year old musical prodigy who suffers from the incurable disease Cystic Fibrosis; nominated in 2009 for three BAFTAs (Best Documentary, Best Director and Best Editing), also nominated for both a Royal Television Society and Broadcast Award for Best Documentary. 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. Faking It: Punk to Conductor, winner of a 2003 BAFTA and Europe's most prestigious TV prize, the Rose D'Or for Best Documentary. 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.
Stephen has also written two books, King of Cannes (Bloomsbury & Penguin 2001) and most recently Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (Harper Collins 2005) which reached the New York Times Bestseller List in August 2005. Shockwave has recently been optioned by Working Title Films for development as a feature film, the screenplay to be written by David Benioff (X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Kiterunner).
Sally George
Sally George has directed and produced 17 films for the BBC and Channel 4, 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).
