Biography
Named one of Variety's "10 Producers to Watch" in 2023, Valerie Steinberg is a producer based in LA, whose recent credits include Executive Producer of A24's The Inspection (2022) (TIFF '22, Golden Globe nominee, three-time Indie Spirit and Gotham Award nominee), as well as EP of Riley Keough and Gina Gammell's directorial debut War Pony (2022), which won the Caméra D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival '22.
She is the lead producer of Karmalink (2021), a Cambodian Buddhist sci-fi feature that was the opening night film of Venice Film Critics' Week '21, sold by XYZ Films, and released theatrically in the US and abroad. This past summer, she produced a film directed by Josephine Decker (Shirley, Madeline's Madeline) called Rise, Again (2022).
She recently served as Executive Producer for all 21 episodes of the Hulu series Bite Size Halloween (2020), working alongside Disney's 20th Digital Studio to produce the works of emerging genre filmmakers from around the world. With her slate of feature films in development, Valerie has been honored with selections by the Sundance x Women in Film Financing Lab, the Rotterdam Lab, Berlinale Talents, Venice Biennale College Cinema, Gotham Week, Film Independent Producing Lab, and Tribeca All Access.
Her numerous award-winning short films - distributed on HBO Max, Hulu, and Criterion Channel - include the Sundance award-winning Hair Wolf (2018), Sundance selection Blocks (2020), SXSW and Tribeca award-winning Fry Day (2017), Tribeca selection Coffee Shop Names (2020), and SXSW selection Collective: Unconscious (2016), including Everybody Dies! which is part of HBO's Random Acts of Flyness (2018). She produced a new short film that recently premiered at SXSW '23 called The Breakthrough (2023), starring Greta Lee (Past Lives, Russian Doll) and Ben Sinclair (High Maintenance).
Valerie graduated from Yale University with a degree in Philosophy and Chinese.
12 wins and 1 nominations
