Biography

Walt Diddy is an independent filmmaker and author who was born in Shelby, North Carolina and studied at the Los Angles Film School in Hollywood, California. Walt Diddy comes from humble background of pain and poverty. The character he writes in his film reflect emotional traumatic times in his past up to including accidentally burning down the family home at five years, growing up in the 80's and 90's without running water in his home, to standing all alone with no one there at his high school graduation 5.28.1994

Now on his his purpose in life as a full time filmmaker Walt Diddy writes movies, sitcoms, and books and in his spare time he's an enthusiastic body skateboarder and has fell in love with storytelling. He enjoys both listening to and telling original stories for the purpose of learning and self-reflection and his willing to travel has across the United States and the world for these stories.

Due to this love of telling stories, Walt wrote and directed his first movie, Justice Through Redemption, which wrapped principle photography in July 2020 with a November 2020 release date. Diddy release all his pain, suffering, and setbacks by writing two books when the first cast and crew walked his movie production in 2018. The first is a collection of poetry called Failure, Fitness and Film-making, that he wrote while saving and planning to make is first movie in 2019, the second is a self-help book which taps in on Walt's experience with emotional trauma and is titled Healing Your Emotional Timeline.

In 2014 Walt wrote, directed and produced his first documentary film, The Charger We Not Me, which followed the exploits of a high school football team that overcame the death of a teammate to go on to win the school's first state championship and this will always be the film that let him know that he was enough to tell stories for screen.

In the future, he hopes to write, direct and produce more movies that will reach worldwide audiences, while inspiring many others that are begging, borrowing, and being rejected because he/she desire to tell stories.
- IMDb mini biography by: Nettie Watkins