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Film and Television Projects

For a complete list of my film credits please view my IMDb page below:

Oscar Micheaux  (Short)
Director:  JD Walker

Winner of the Best Short at the African American Film Festival and featured at the Cannes Film Festival, "Oscar Micheaux" is a short film (based on a true story) by Writer-Director JD Walker. The film, which debuted on Aspire TV,  is set in Los Angeles during the Harlem Renaissance about a producer of silent films, starring African Americans in leading roles, who decides to take matters into his own hands when he is denied a distribution deal from Lincoln Motion Picture Company. Walker has also penned the feature script adaptation for this short, which is called "Within Our Gates."

AWARDS
WINNER: Best Short, African American Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Cannes Film Festival
Urban World
African American Film Festival (Best Short)
Montreal Int'l Black Film Festival
Toronto Black Film Festival
Twin Cities Black Film Festival, Black Film Festival of New Orleans
Sistas Are Doin' It for Themselves Film Festival
African American Film Marketplace
Sandra: Say Her Name  (Short)
Director: JD Walker
Winner of the Best Short at the Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival and inspired by a true story, "Sandra: Say Her Name" is a short by Writer-Director, JD Walker, about a woman whose plight begins after she fails to signal a lane change.  
AWARDS
WINNER: Best Short, Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival
Hollywood Black Film Festival
"Survival" (Feature)
                                                        1st AD:  JD Walker
Winner of the BEST FEATURE at "The People's Film Festival" and AUDIENCE WINNER at The American Black Film Festival in Miami, "Survival" is an action-thriller about a car-jacked mother (Elise Neal) and entrepreneur who is forced to bond with her violent assailant in order to escape.
AWARDS
WINNER: Best Short, People's Film Festival
WINNER: Audience Award, ABFF

OFFICIAL SELECTION
American Black Film Festival
People's Film Festival


Additional Projects I've Worked On

 
 
WRITING



PUBLICATIONS 


Refereed Journal Publications

  • Walker, Jamie D. (2007), “James Brown, The Godfather of Soul, Dies at 73,” Black Arts Quarterly.
  • Walker, Jamie D. (2004), “Manifesto for My Soul (Poem),” BMa: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review.

 

Magazines and Newsletters

  •            Walker, Jamie D. "Meet the First Lady: Michelle Obama (Cover Story)," About...Time 1 (2009): 12-17.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. "President Obama: An Aesthetic of Hope (Cover Story)," About...Time 1 (2009): 6-11.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. "Yes, We Did: The Inauguration of Barack Obama," About...Time 1 (2009): 26-29.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Too Much Protein?: Re-Examining the Benefits of Soy and Whey,” Heart & Soul magazine
  •                     (December/January 2008)
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “African Americans Figure Prominently in Presidential Debate (Cover Story),” About...Time 
  •                     35.3 (2007): 34-37.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Vacation Getaway: Cancun, Mexico,” Heart & Soul magazine (Feb/March 2007)
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Catching the Fire of Sonia Sanchez; An Interview (Cover Story),” Heart & Soul magazine 
  •                     (June/July 2006)
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Broadway’s The Color Purple Empowers Many,” About…Time 33.4 (Spring 2006); reprinted
  •                      in The Washington Informer and The African American Literature Book Club Online.  
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Playwright August Wilson Loses Battle with Liver Cancer,” About…Time 33.3 (2005): 30-31.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Thousands Bid Farewell to Luther Vandross (Cover Story),” About…Time 33.2 (2005): 32-25.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Ossie Davis: Remembering Him with Love (Cover Story),” About…Time 33.1 (2005): 20-23.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Why I Write,” Sable Literary Magazine, 5.1 (Fall 2004): 29-36.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “The Healing Power of Poetry: In Praise and Support of Amiri Baraka," Trombones 
  •                        (Spring 2003): 8.
  •           Walker, Jamie D. “Making Music, Making Babies: A Sneak Peak into the Lives of Parents Who Perform (Cover   
  •                         Story,)” The Kindred Papers, 1.1 (2003): 10.
  •            Walker, Jamie D. “Heart’s Day Celebration Honoring Sanchez Touches Many,” Trombones (Spring 2002): 2.
  • ·         Walker, Jamie D. “Sonia Sanchez: The Poet as Teacher,” Trombones (Fall 2001): 6.

Books

Edited Collections

  • Walker, Jamie D. (Forthcoming), Editor, Sonia Sanchez: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, with a Foreword by
                       Maya Angelou, Introduction by Joyce Ann Joyce, and Afterword by Beverly Guy-Sheftall. Forthcoming from U. of    
                       Michigan Press.

     

    Articles in Books

                        Community, Beverly Black Johnson, editor. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc.
                        Every Student. 
    • Tommie L. Lindsey and Randall McCutcheon, editors. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
    • Walker, Jamie D. (2006), “When He Demands All My Poems Be Written to Liberate Black America,” in Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees, DuEwa M. Frazier, editor. New York: Lit Noire Publishing, 2006.
    • Walker, Jamie D. (2005), “It Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now: Interview with Jamie Walker,” in I Woke Up and Put My Crown On: The Project of 76 Voices, Rochelle D. Hart, editor. Baltimore, MD: Publish America, 2005.
    • Walker, Jamie D. (2005), “When I Got It,” in It Doesn’t Take a Genius: Five Truths to Inspire Genius in Every Student, Tommie L. Lindsey and Randall McCutcheon, editors. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
    • Walker, Jamie D. (2004), “Interview with Esther Cooper Jackson,” (co-founder of Freedomways magazine),” in 
              A Wealth  of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak, Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint, editors.  
              New York: Atria Books.
    • Walker, Jamie D. (Forthcoming), “A Poem for Dead Hearts,” in Are All the Women Still White?: Globalizing Women’s Studies


       

      Newspapers and Web-based Articles

      • Walker, Jamie D. “Sisterspace Fights Eviction,” The Final Call, 15 June 2004: 7.

      • Walker, Jamie D. “Former Essence Editor-in-Chief Opens Akwaaba Inn for Black Writers,” The New York Amsterdam News, 16—22 Aug. 2004. Reprinted with permission in The Tennessee Tribune, 4—10 April 2004 and The African American Literature Book Club Online.
      • Walker, Jamie D. “Home-Going Celebration for Daughter of Amina and Amiri Baraka Touches Many,” The San Francisco Bayview, 20 Aug. 2003. Reprinted with permission in The Amsterdam News, 21—27 Aug. 2003: B1 and Chickenbones: An Online Literary Journal.
      • Walker, Jamie D. "Dorothy Height Retires Expenses on Mortgage at Birthday Bash," The Tennessee Tribune, 4—10  April 2002: A1. Reprinted with permission in The Howard Hilltop and The Black World Today.
      • Walker, Jamie D.  “Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint Launch National Visionary Leadership Project,” The Tennessee Tribune, 14—20 March 2001: A1. Reprinted with permission in The Spelman Spotlight, The Howard Hilltop, and The Black World Today.