
Luke Walton
Production
Biography
Luke started producing short films in 2006 (The Walk) and founded and developed the short film funding competition The Pitch in 2007. Since then he has been producing the best short film pitches submitted for each year's competition. The current funding if £25,000 with some additional funds available for the runners up. His background includes studying Law (Leeds University) and Theology (Durham University) as well as an actor with The Riding Lights Theatre Company (York). He is married to Tasha (teacher) and has two daughters.
Known For

Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.
Early Man

A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.
Pulsar

A slave, a spy, a city under siege and a choice to be made that will change their world forever.
Rahab

A Syrian refugee can only stay in Britain if she becomes a surrogate mother for a desperate couple, but their illicit pact has dark consequences.
Promise

Set in a British working class neighbourhood, the stories of three wrecked people meet each other leading the film to a disastrous climax.
Hollow

Set within the world of competitive gymnastics, Pommel is a coming-of-age drama about the tumultuous relationship between two young brothers as they compete for recognition and approval in an up coming gymnastics competition.
Pommel

June 2016. In their first ever European Championships, Wales march through to the semi-finals. For a girl gang in small-town South Wales, the line between patriotism and xenophobia becomes blurred.
Leash

Based on the Parable of the Lost Son, we follow Lilah, a 16 year old British-Pakistani Muslim girl who is searching for her place in the world. Since the death of her mother, Lilah has begrudgingly taken on her mum’s role in the family home. Frustrated by her inherently obstinate father and her brother’s legalistic faith, Lilah makes a plan to run away with Jimmy, the 22 year old guy she has been seeing in secret. Torn between the call of a life without imposed values and the importance of her culture, Lilah makes the choice to flee, putting her family’s forgiveness to the ultimate test.
Daughter

Supernatural drama set in the British trenches of WW1. Along with the rest of his platoon, young Private Edwin Childs fears imminent German gas attacks. As the dreaded attack begins, how much will Edwin give of himself in the ultimate act of compassion towards his fellow men?
Attrition

Once prominent executives of a powerful corporation inexplicably turn feral and wander the forest. They are hunted and traded by hunters as retribution for their crimes against the environment. One of the hunters encounters someone unexpected, and loyalty is tested.
Stump

A young woman from a poor village in China, Xia Jia, arrives in Hong Kong to be a surrogate mother for a wealthy Chinese couple, living with them so they can supervise her pregnancy. It is an isolating experience, made harder by the harsh treatment of the wife towards Xia Jia, driven by bitterness and jealousy.
Our Child

It's 2025 and the Water Wars ravage Europe. A notorious prisoner of war is on the run, pursued by trained killers. Cornered, he takes an old man hostage in a last ditch attempt at freedom.
Derelict

When a spirited eight-year-old lands the part of Innkeeper in the school nativity play, she battles her perfectionist teacher who insists that she "stick to the script" and refuse Mary and Joseph a room.
The Innkeeper

Only Child is the beautifully shot film in which we watch as an Irish couple go through a life journey dealing with the harsh reality of love and loss. The battle of needing the person you love to be there for you, whilst you be there for them.
Only Child

Once renowned food critic, now homeless and battling alcoholism, campaigns to save her local soup kitchen, despite her complaint shutting it down.
Five Thousand Stars

A woman works out the best way to kill an unconscious enemy general who has sought refuge in her tent, while her two best friends dissuade her using a combination of wit, distraction, and utter disbelief in her ability to pull it off.
Jael Drives the Nail

A woman with albinism has her arm hacked off by a witch doctor. Now she wants revenge.
White Gold

Ireland, 1847. A destitute young widow desperate to save her dying son, must make a choice, but is the cost of survival worth the price of her humanity?
The Widow's Last

Long-suffering housewife Abby longs to be free from emotionally abusive husband. She’s frequently apologising for his rudeness, but divorce simply isn’t an option. One day he crosses the line, offending the local Village Watch leader David King, causing protection to be withdrawn from their manor house, and Abby springs into action.
Till Death Do Us Part

A genius stock analyst loses his wife in a fatal car crash. Through his obsession to find comfort and destroy those responsible he is drawn into one final deadly ultimatum.