Caroline Walker's Bio

“The moment I say I see everything clearly is the moment I am blinded. The more humility, the more understanding; the more presumption, the more error.”

Caroline Walker is from in Beaumont, Texas and became interested in screenplay writing her senior year of high school. At Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Caroline earned a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Service and Professional Writing. After graduating in 1990, she continued to pursue screenwriting in her free time when not working at a video production company in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1992, Caroline felt called to give up her screenwriting ambitions for overseas missions work and joined Campus Crusade for Christ (“New Life” in Russia) for a nine-month mission trip to Novosibirsk, Siberia. In Novosibirsk, she read for the first time Sergei Kourdakov’s 1973 autobiography, The Persecutor, and was fascinated to learn that Kourdakov was born in Novosibirsk. She was especially interested in a chapter about Kourdakov’s childhood where he describes how a scientist in Academic City – the very town where she was living -- adopted him for a short period of time. She checked the science institute’s archives in Academic City, but they showed no trace of this scientist’s last name. However, Caroline felt the story could be authentic and wondered why such a wonderful story had never been made into a movie.

After returning to the U.S., Caroline earned her teaching certificate from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and began teaching high school English and Journalism in neighboring Orange. In her spare time, she began to write again and felt that Kourdakov’s story would be a natural fit for a screenwriter’s debut. Uncertain if she should pursue the idea, she prayed about it and saw in her mind’s eye herself as a pen in God’s hand. Her interpretation was that God would allow her to adapt Kourdakov’s story to the screen. After three years of research and writing two different screenplays about Kourdakov, Caroline quit, mainly because she couldn’t find out who owned the film rights to The Persecutor.

In 1998 Caroline moved to Atlanta, Georgia and began working as a change management consultant. In 1999 she became certain that a documentary should precede any motion picture drama and planned a trip to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia where Sergei claimed to have led more than 150 raids on Christians.

In 2000 Caroline founded the nonprofit, Sergei Project, Inc., also known as Make Known Productions, to underwrite the documentary, and, for the next four years co-produced Forgive Me Sergei with director Damian Wojciechowski, SJ. The film was completed in April 2004 and has won various awards at festivals around the world.

Make Known Productions is a 501(c)3 nonprofit company dedicated to making known marvelous stories and documenting good works around the world.

Caroline married in January of 2009 and currently lives in Houston, Texas.