[2] Walker-Pearlman was born in New York City, and is the nephew of actor Gene Wilder with whom he lived for a period of time in childhood.
It also had a special premiere at the Kwa Mashu Film Festival in South Africa with both director and actress Gabrielle Union present for ten days to open the movie theater at the Arts Centre in the Kwa Mashu Township.
On February 3, 2020, he wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times calling on the Motion Picture Academy to recognize the "cultural violence" of historical racism in American movies in its new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and explained his years earlier decision to decline an invitation to membership in the organization.
[9] However, in August 2024, the house was in foreclosure proceedings due to the alleged difficulties making further additional payments on the private note during the writers strike of 2023; though rumors of political and personal disagreements with the billionaire continue they have all been discounted by Walker-Pearlman.
[10] He is the co-founder of MoJo Global Arts[11] which he left in June 2021 to become founder of the film production company HarlemHollywood.