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Valerie Steinberg

History

Valerie Steinberg is a creative producer based in Los Angeles, who develops and produces films and television globally. Her producing credits include Karmalink (dir. Jake Wachtel), a Cambodian “Buddhist sci-fi” feature film, which recently premiered as the opening night film of Venice Film Critics' Week (2021), executive produced by XYZ Films. She is an Executive Producer of the upcoming feature films Beast (dir. Riley Keough, Gina Gammell) and Silver Star (dir. Ruben Amar), and Consulting Producer of Ash Mayfair’s Vietnamese period drama feature film The Third Wife (TIFF award winner; 3-time Independent Spirit Award nominee). Her award-winning short film credits include Blocks (dir. Bridget Moloney; Sundance, SXSW, AFI DWW 2020), Hair Wolf (dir. Mariama Diallo; Sundance Jury Award winner for US Fiction Short Film 2018, streaming on Criterion Channel), Fry Day (dir. Laura Moss; SXSW 2017, Tribeca award winner, streaming on Criterion Channel), Coffee Shop Names (dir. Deepak Sethi; Tribeca X 2021, streaming on HBO Max), Freeze (dir. Maya Albanese; SeriesFest winner, Oscilloscope, Argo), Metronome (in Time) (dir. Scott Lochmus; Tribeca 2019), and Everybody Dies! (dir. Nuotama Bodomo; SXSW 2016 in Collective: Unconscious omnibus, and the pilot for Terence Nance’s HBO series Random Acts of Flyness, now streaming on the Criterion Channel). Honors include the Sundance x WIF Financing Intensive Lab (2021), Berlinale Talents (2021), Rotterdam Lab (2021), Venice Biennale College Cinema (2020), Film Independent Producing Lab (2019), Tribeca All Access program (2019), and the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (2018). Valerie earned her BA in Philosophy and Chinese at Yale University.

Movies

Executive Producer

The interlocking stories of two Lakota boys growing up on Pine Ridge Reservation. At 23, Bill just wants to make something of himself. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Matho can’t wait to become a man. Bound by their shared search for belonging, each of the boys grapple with identity, family, and loss, as they navigate their unique paths to manhood.

Executive Producer

Ellis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.

Executive Producer

When a white civil servant visits his Nigerian girlfriend's family to ask for their blessing, he must face the darkness hidden in his history.

Producer

In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.

Producer

When Joy’s fairytale life crashes and burns on the eve of her 35th birthday, the ticking of her biological clock gets louder, pushing her into a series of romantic misadventures. Pressures stack up against her, and everybody seems to have an opinion about what she should do with her dwindling egg count. She ends up in the Dream Life Lab & Clinic where an angry female mob battles to get in to see an eccentric egg freezing doctor who offers peace of mind in exchange for top dollar.

Producer

An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit plastic toy blocks.

Coffee Shop Names

Coffee Shop Names

Producer

Three Indian people imagine their personas as the names they give baristas, because their real names are hard to pronounce.

Producer

A millennial woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity.

Producer

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

The Poet and the Professor

The Poet and the Professor

Producer

Ariel, an insecure writer tortured by her own desires, can’t seem to stop seeing “The Poet,” an older, volatile cinematographer who pursues his ‘art’ while taking full advantage of his rich girlfriend’s beautiful New York apartment. Ariel also can’t stop herself from loving her own professor, a depressed, married, struggling adjunct obsessed with postmodernism and addicted to pills.

Producer

Set against the backdrop of the execution of Ted Bundy in 1989, the story centers around a 16-year-old girl named Lauryn who makes a little extra money by taking and selling Polaroids of the people who are camped out near the prison, celebrating the execution.

Producer

Anton, a young Ukrainian man, walks through Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He arrives outside Brooklyn Banya, a bathhouse, matching it to the image on a postcard he has been carrying. He asks her if she has seen his father, Andrei. She invites him to pay the entrance fee to look for himself.

Everybody Dies!

Everybody Dies!

Producer

In this recreated public access television show, Ripa the Grim Reaper teaches black kids about the day they'll die.

Darknet Delivery: A Silk Road Story

Darknet Delivery: A Silk Road Story

Co-Producer

In the era of Internet hyper-connectivity, four friends order drugs online, only to reveal how disconnected they really are.

Key Production Assistant

16th July 1969: America prepares to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of kilometers away, a ragtag group of Zambian exiles is trying to beat America to the Moon.