Clay Walker

Clay Walker is an Atlanta-based video production professional. He has been working as a producer, editor, videographer and still photographer for over 30 years now, beginning as a documentary film editor in Los Angeles. For the last twenty five years, Clay has worked primarily with marketing departments of various global corporations creating a variety of video pieces to be used for internal and social media campaigns, shooting interviews throughout the U.S. and globally, often as a one-person crew, managing all aspects of scheduling, travel, video / audio / lighting for multi-camera setups. Creatively, Clay's documentary film on the late Atlanta musician Freddy Cole "The Cole Nobody Knows," was featured in over 50 international film festivals. In the late 1990's, He created several ground-breaking multi-media projects with acclaimed North Carolina swing band the "Squirrel Nut Zippers." He produced, directed, photographed and edited the PBS documentary "Post No Bills" on Los Angeles "guerilla" satirical political poster artist Robbie Conal which screened at the first Sundance Film Festival and qualified & competed for an Academy Award in the documentary feature category. In December 2022, Clay completed a 5 month project for Emory University creating 4 documentary videos about the “SEE Learning” educational initiative that he shot and edited in Italy, Romania, Mongolia and India. The completed pieces were presented to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on December 9 at the Dalai Lama Library and Archive in Dharamsala, India. Clay has spoken about his creative projects on NPR, various colleges, museums and film festivals including SXSW, the Smithsonian, Sundance, the Director's Guild of America and the American Film Institute. Clay has a degree in film production from the University of Southern California and has also taught motion graphic design at the Art Institute of Atlanta.