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Jordan Walker-Pearlman | |
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| Born | June 24, 1967 |
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| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Hunter (m. 2015) |
| Parent(s) | Corinne Silberman Pearlman Gilbert Dale Pearlman |
| Relatives | Gene Wilder (maternal uncle) Katharine Wilder (cousin) Adele Walker (grandmother) [1] |
Jordan Walker-Pearlman (born June 24, 1967) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, and executive. [2]
Walker-Pearlman was born in New York City, and is the nephew of actor Gene Wilder with whom he lived for a period of time in childhood. [3]
Walker-Pearlman is best known for the 2000 film The Visit , for which he was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards (one for directing and one for the screenplay) and the movie itself received four nominations. [4] [5]
His 2005 film, Constellation , starring Gabrielle Union, Zoe Saldana, and Billy Dee Williams, premiered at the Pan African Film Festival, Roxbury Film Festival, [6] Black Filmmaker Magazine Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival. It also had a special premiere at the Kwa Mashu Film Festival in South Africa with both director and actress Gabrielle Union present for ten days to open the movie theater at the Arts Centre in the Kwa Mashu Township. [7]
Both films won the Audience Award at the Urbanworld Film Festival in their respective years.
In 2015, Walker-Pearlman married screenwriter Elizabeth Hunter.
On February 3, 2020, he wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times calling on the Motion Picture Academy to recognize the "cultural violence" of historical racism in American movies in its new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and explained his years earlier decision to decline an invitation to membership in the organization. The op-ed was the first of several that year that appeared to influence AMPAS to dedicate several exhibits to this history. [8]
In 2020, he purchased his late uncle Gene Wilder's house from Elon Musk using owner financing by Musk, and the property was featured in the semi-autobiographical film The Requiem Boogie. [9] However, in August 2024, the house was in foreclosure proceedings due to the alleged failure of Walker-Pearlman to pay the mortgage payments. The house had been placed on the for-sale market by Walker-Pearlman for some time at twice his purchase price with no offers. [10]
He is the co-founder of MoJo Global Arts [11] which he left in June 2021 to become founder of the film production company HarlemHollywood. [12]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1980–1984 | Livewire | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 1982 | Hanky Panky | Boy on Escalator | Uncredited |
| True Innocence | The Guy | Short film | |
| 1999 | Hollywood 26 | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2015–2016 | Unsung Hollywood | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2017 | Sex and Violence! or: A Brief Review of Simple Physics | Marty | |
| 2018 | Love, Gilda | Himself | |
| 2024 | The Requiem Boogie | Ranny Besquith | Post-production, also director [13] |
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