Jeremy Walker + Associates Inc Information

Jeremy Walker and Judd Stark founded Jeremy Walker + Associates in 1999. Since then, the agency has become a leading public relations firm representing all kinds of movies and their makers. The agency is located on Manhattan's Upper West Side. JW+A has created and implemented many theatrical release campaigns for such companies as Lions Gate Films, Paramount Classics / MTV Films, IFC Films, Wellspring, Magnolia Pictures, Palm Pictures, United Artists, THINKFilm and Artisan. Past and more recent release campaigns include Craig Brewer's " Hustle & Flow," Rebecca Miller's "The Ballad of Jack & Rose," Todd Solondz' "Palindromes," Rob Zombie's "The Devil's Rejects," Chris Kentis and Laura Lau's "Open Water," Marc Forster's "Monster's Ball" and Mary Harron's "American Psycho. The agency is equally skilled at handling documentaries and foreign language films, with such titles as "Step Into Liquid," "The Corporation" and "Crónicas" on its resumé and has created a number of campaigns on behalf of Warner Home Video for such classic DVD releases as Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders: The Complete Novel," George Lucas' "THX 1138," Milos Forman's "Amadaeus" and The Stanley Kubrick Collection. But if JW+A has a specialty, it is helping independent filmmakers prepare their work to go on the market for distribution at such nationally and internationally recognized film festivals as Sundance, Toronto and TriBeCa. The agency is particularly proud of its work on a cluster of high-quality independent films that have been greeted with major critical success and headline-grabbing distribution deals at these festivals because JW+A was involved with them as the productions' Unit Publicist before they started shooting. " Thank You for Smoking," Jason Reitman's debut feature starring Aaron Eckhart and based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, rather notoriously lit up the 2005 Toronto Film Festival, where it was acquired by Fox Searchlight Pictures for a 2006 release. Duncan Tucker's "Transamerica," starring Felicity Huffman in an award-winning performance, was acquired by Weinstein Co. at the 2005 TriBeCa Film Festival for release at the end of 2005. And Wayne Kramer's "The Cooler," starring William H. Macy, Maria Bello and Alec Baldwin, was acquired out of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival by Lions Gate, with whom the agency continued to work through Baldwin's Academy Award® nomination. JW+A also works with a certain number of films upon their invitation to these festivals. At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival JW+A represented all three top prize-winning films: Ira Sachs' " Forty Shades of Blue" (Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition); Eugene Jarecki's "Why We Fight" (Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Competition); and Craig Brewer's "Hustle & Flow" (winner of the Audience Award and the Cinematography Prize in the Dramatic Competition). On the corporate side, JW+A has long-standing relationships with the prolific, maverick producers Edward R. Pressman and the husband-and-wife team of Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente. JW+A announced Pressman and John Schmidt's ContentFilm at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival and represented the company, and most of its feature productions, until it stopped making movies in 2005. JW+A continues to represent Pressman, currently on behalf of his newest venture, Pressman & Company Films. JW+A also represents Kliot and Vicente's New York-based HDNet Films. A production division of Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Entertainment, HDNet Films is developing, financing and producing a formidable slate of features shot in High Definition.