Merman’s Lucy Walker to be Celebrated in Unique Retrospective

24 July, 2024

Director Lucy Walker, who is on the roster of the global commercial production company Merman, will be celebrated in a weeklong series of screenings of her impressive oeuvre of documentaries at the Paris Theatre in Manhattan from July 24th through August 7th, in conjunction with the July 31st release of her latest film ‘Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa’ on Netflix. The historic Paris Theatre was acquired by Netflix in 2019 and will host eleven of Lucy’s films during the week, including ‘Devil’s Playground,’ her 2002 documentary about Amish teenagers engaging in the tradition of rumspringa; her 2006 mountain climbing documentary ‘Blindsight;’ her Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary about Brazilian landfill workers ‘Waste Land;’ the 2013 snowboarding documentary ‘The Crash Reel;’ and her 2021 wildfire documentary ‘Bring Your Own Brigade.’