KELLY WALKER is an Australian multi-hyphenate award-winning filmmaker. For her 12th birthday, Little Kelly asked for Final Draft and Adobe Premiere (cause that’s normal), and by the time she graduated high school, she had 4 (deliciously bad) feature films in the can. On moving to LA, Walker found her tribe working on short films and won The Jury Award for best short at Bentonville Film Festival for her co-directed short, The Brownlist. That win was the nudge she needed to dive back into features. 

Walker’s first (profesh) feature, My Fiona, a queer grief story, was selected for AIF’s Writers Lab, premiered at BFI Flare, secured a ReFrame Stamp, and was distributed by Freestyle Digital. 

Walker’s screenplay, The Beauty of a Woman, an Audrey Hepburn biopic, was a semi-finalist in The Black List x WIF Residency, The Black List x Stowe Story Lab and short-listed for Austin Film Festival’s Script Competition. 

Combining her love (addiction) of books, Walker penned the adaptation of The Upside of Falling Down, based on the book by Rebekah Crane, for Embankment Films and A Leg in Oklahoma City, based on Greg Hoetker’s novel, is currently optioned by LiquidFish. 

Most recently, Walker won Script Pipeline’s 2024 First Look Project with her erotic thriller, The Stag and the Bull.

Walker’s storytelling dives into messy, intimate relationships — blurring the lines of desire, humor (the darker, the better) and raw emotional truth. 

She is a member of WIF, AIF, Film Fatales, ULSC & Gotham and, most recently, was selected for the Women In Film Writer Fellowship program.