Our New Ambassador

We're delighted and proud to announce filmmaker Cornelius Walker as our new Into Film Ambassador. It takes a self-effacing and genuine person to want to help and support young people who have fallen on the wrong side of the tracks, and Oscar®-nominated director, writer and producer Cornelius Walker (aged 28) is just that. Cornelius co-founded the collective Young Once Creative Forever, through which he's made films for the likes of Google, and his most recent film is the gone-viral drama Take Me.

“It's a great honour to be an Into Film Ambassador, I believe strongly in helping the youth in any way possible. I love what this organisation does for pupils, so much so that I wish I could be young again because I never had an Into Film growing up. This is a great opportunity for me to, hopefully play a part in helping to inspire young people, particularly those who might find themselves lost for a bit, as I was.”

INTO FILM AMBASSADOR, CORNELIUS WALKER

Following the Oscar-nominated success of his film Black Sheep - a 30 minute autobiographical film about his traumatic younger life in which he was subjected to racial violence and subsequently became part of a gang himself - Cornelius was compelled to give something back. He has since been working with young people - primarily with teenage boys who have fallen out of the educational system and become involved in violence and crime themselves.

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