Jeremy

I am a seasoned veteran of and expert on the American Indpendent Film Movement. My NYC PR agency, Jeremy Walker + Associates, ushered in the early work of many of today's marquee filmmakers and talent. At its peak, JW+A played a major role in what the press covered at the Sundance Film Festival after Jeremy discovered THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and played a key role in making it among the most profitable movies ever made, negotiating nearly unheard of simultaneous covers of TIME and NEWSWEEK. That work allowed him to start his own agency which continued to rock the acquisitions game at Sundance, SXSW, Toronto, New York, Hamptons, TriBeCa and many other Festivals as well as create and execute New York and national theatrical campaigns for such movies as AMERICAN PSYCHO, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, Oscar winners HUSTLE & FLOW and MONSTERS BALL, Oscar nominee THE COOLER. Before returning to his native Malibu in 2008, Walker serves as the unit publicist on the set of Ti West's breakout THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, and the Production Notes he uses here as a writing sample show what he can do with access and a little time. After his return to Malibu Walker consulted with producer Jason Blum and director Oren Peli on their first smash it, franchise-spawning PARANORMAL ACTIVITY movie, and the Production Notes he wrote and which were used by Paramount in the campaign show what he can do with very little time and no access to the set. Walker is very good at making small things huge and at igniting press coverage, particularly at The New York Times, see page 3 of the resume.

I most increase the value of my clients' work when I am brought on before production begins. This was the case with AMERICAN PSYCHO for which I wrote the first press release when producer Ed Pressman acquired the rights to the novel. I was unit publicist and spokesperson for the production in Toronto and NYC, brought the movie to Sundance and then ran the release campaign. I also love and am very good at getting smaller films the attention they need when they compete against larger, more star-studded titles at major film festivals. But I am diverse. I love working with craft people, like costume and production designers. I am very good with "difficult" people https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-mn-the-incomparable-rose-hartman-20170708-story.html and have also recently cracked top press for TV/Streaming clients like my old BLAIR WITCH friend Eduardo Sanchez https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-01-20/column-from-blair-witch-project-to-yellowjackets-eduardo-sanchez-is-still-happily-lost-in-creepy-woods . I am also passionate in my belief that the cornerstone for any campaign in today's world is original content, that is video that can serve both social media and straight up editorial purposes. I work exclusively with Harry Pallenberg of Sunny and Mild Media to create the cause https://vimeo.com/57752857 and effect https://www.buzzfeed.com/richardrushfield/chris-matthews-and-sen-chris-dodd-congratulate-n The movie in question NEWLYWEEDS did, in fact, sell at Sundance and launched the career of its director Shaka King, who went on to direct the acclaimed JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH for Warner Bros.

I am a fantastic writer, strategist, diplomat, market analyst and showman.