IN TRANSIT
ABOUT
Albert Maysles’ last film takes us aboard America’s busiest long-distance train route. The film unfolds as a series of interconnected vignettes, ranging from overheard conversations to moments of deep intimacy, in which passengers share their fears, hopes and dreams. To some, the train is flight and salvation, to others it is reckoning and loss. But for all, it is a place for personal reflection and connecting with others they may otherwise never know.
Nelson Walker began his career working on documentaries for Discovery Channel, History Channel and PBS’s NOVA. He has made numerous films including iThemba|Hope (Sundance Channel, 2005), LUMO (PBS/P.O.V. 2007, Student Academy Award® Winner), and Summer Pasture (PBS/Independent Lens 2012), which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an IFP Gotham Award, and won a Peabody Award. Most recently, Nelson was one of the Directors, along with the late Albert Maysles, of the feature documentary IN TRANSIT (Special Jury Mention, 2015 Tribeca Film Festival), on which he was also a Cinematographer and Producer. Nelson is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the Maysles Documentary Center in New York.