Laura Valladao

Filmes

Krush The Wrestler
Director of Photography
Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.
Fremont
Director of Photography
Beautiful and troubled 20-something Donya, an Afghan translator who used to work with the U.S. government, has trouble sleeping. She lives by herself in Fremont, California, in a building with other Afghan immigrants and often dines alone at a local restaurant watching soap operas. Her routine changes when she’s promoted to writing the fortunes at her job at a fortune cookie factory in the city. As her fortunes are read by strangers throughout the Bay, Donya’s smoldering longing drives her to send a message out to the world, unsure where it will lead.
Call Me Miss Cleo
Cinematography
Follow the rise, fall, and reinvention of controversial and revered '90s television psychic Miss Cleo. Featuring interviews with celebrities and those closest to the self-proclaimed voodoo priestess, this documentary explores the many layers behind a complicated and charismatic figure.
Homebody
Director of Photography
Nine-year-old Johnny sends his spirit into his babysitter Melanie and gets to be a woman for a day.
Death Valley
Director of Photography
It’s New Years' Eve 2080 and Earth is uninhabited. A new-age radiologist travels from outer space to practice yoga in front of a desert sunset when an earthquake hurls her from a cliff.
Leylak
Director of Photography
In present-day Queens, a Turkish gravedigger (Nadir Saribacak) is unable to face a shattering truth and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.
Premature
Director of Photography
The summer before she leaves for college, Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious outsider Isaiah; her entire world is turned upside down as she navigates the demanding terrain of young love against a changing Harlem landscape.
My Nephew Emmett
Director of Photography
This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.
House of Teeth
Cinematography
"In the aftermath of her divorce, a woman in midlife sets out to find her bearings -- and her mojo -- as she confronts the challenges and surprises of life beyond marriage."
The Stranger in Us
Director of Photography
In this verité-style drama, Anthony, a newcomer to San Francisco, attempts to come to terms with his abusive ex-lover when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a street hustler.