JAMIE WALKER

Winner of the "Best Short" at The African American Film Festival and featured at The Cannes Film Festival, "Oscar Micheaux" is a 1920s drama set in Los Angeles, 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 Pictures.

Based on a true story, "Oscar Micheaux" had its debut at BHERC and would later go on to screen on Aspire TV. Jamie Walker who wrote and directed the short recently completed a feature script adaptation called "Within Our Gates." This is Walker's first short produced in the MFA Program at USC