Lucy Walker has directed four award-winning feature documentaries: DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND (premiered Sundance 2002), BLINDSIGHT (premiered Toronto 2006), WASTE LAND and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO (both premiered Sundance 2010).

In 2011, Lucy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary for directing WASTE LAND, which won over 30 other awards including the Audience Awards at Sundance and Berlin and the IDA’s Best Documentary Award. Recognition for DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, about Amish teenagers, included nominations for three Emmys and an Independent Spirit Award. BLINDSIGHT won many festivals, including Berlin, and was longlisted for the Academy Award.

Lucy grew up in London, England, and studied English at Oxford University, where she started out directing theater before winning a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the MFA graduate film program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was also a DJ and directed Nickelodeon’s BLUE’S CLUES, for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy.

Lucy has a new short documentary premiering at the Toronto Internationa Film Festival in September 2011about the recent tragic tsunami in Japan, and how the subsequent cherry blossom season brought some hope to the victims in the most hard-hit areas.