Valerie Steinberg

약력

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.

참여 작품

워 포니
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.
디 인스펙션
Executive Producer
엘리스 프렌치는 젊고 게이인 흑인 남성으로, 그의 어머니에게 거절당했고, 그의 미래에 대한 선택권이 거의 없이, 그를 제쳐놓는 시스템에서 성공하기 위해 필요한 모든 것을 하면서 해병대에 입대하기로 결심한다. 그러나 그가 뿌리 깊은 편견과 기초 훈련의 힘든 일상과 싸우면서도, 그는 이 새로운 공동체에서 예상치 못한 동료애, 힘, 그리고 지지를 발견하여, 그의 정체성을 형성하고 그의 삶을 영원히 바꿀 수 있는 어렵게 얻은 소속감을 그에게 준다.
Nzu
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.
Karmalink
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.
Freeze
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.
Blocks
Producer
An existential comedy about the mother of two young children who begins to spontaneously vomit plastic toy blocks.
Coffee Shop Names
Producer
Three Indian people imagine their personas as the names they give baristas, because their real names are hard to pronounce.
Bug Bite
Producer
A millennial woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity.
헤어 울프
Producer
브루클린의 흑인 전용 미용실에 한 여자가 들이닥친다. 흑인 전용 미용실에 찾아온 백인 여자는 아프로헤어 스타일을 요구하며 흑인들의 외모에 부러움을 표한다. 쉴 새 없이 사진을 찍는 여자에게 두려움을 느낀 흑인 종업원들은 하나 둘 좀비처럼 백인 스타일로 변해간다. 아프로 헤어스타일을 요구하는 이 흰 피부의 빌런은 머리가 완성되자 매우 흡족해 한다.
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.
Fry Day
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.
With Yuri
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!
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
Co-Producer
In the era of Internet hyper-connectivity, four friends order drugs online, only to reveal how disconnected they really are.
Afronauts
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.