Imperial Woodpecker has signed director Molly Manning Walker for her first U.S. representation. She continues to be handled in the U.K. market by London-based Rogue for commercials and branded content.
Walker is a British cinematographer and BAFTA-nominated director who resides in London. Her debut feature film How to Have Sex (2023) won the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and the European Discovery–Prix FIPRESCI at the 36th European Film Awards. In 2024, she earned two nominations at the 77th British Academy Film Awards for How to Have Sex–Outstanding British Film and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
Her first feature film as a cinematographer, Scrapper directed by Charlotte Regan, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2023. Walker was nominated at the BIFAs (British Independent Film Awards) for best cinematography and the film went on to be nominated for Outstanding British Film at the BAFTAs.
Director Walker’s first short film Good Thanks, You? was included in the Semaine De La Critique program at Cannes and her second short The Forgotten C earned a BIFA nomination.
