Aaron Walker

Aaron Walker is a writer, director, and producer and narrative and documentary film, and a teacher of film production. He worked with the Academy Award winning documentary production company Just Media in Denver, CO as a researcher, editor, project manager, and associate producer before pursuing his MFA in narrative film work. While at Columbia, he participated in a directing fellowship with La fémis, the national film school of France in Paris, and has shot several short films there. His short films have been screened in various international film festivals, most notably TriBeCa. As a teacher, he has been teaching filmmaking for the past decade in Tampa, Florida, where he helped develop the Film, Animation, and New Media program at the University of Tampa, and where he recently directed the student-crewed concert film Together Merrily. He is developing a long term historical romance called Heart Mountain, which takes place in his home state of Wyoming, at the largest internment camp during WWII for Americans of Japanese descent during the war.