Valerie Steinberg

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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.

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SICK DAY

A burnt out assistant's perfect plan to get sent home sick is derailed when a swarm of locusts invades Los Angeles.

0.0

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2024

Ramadan America

Ramadan America is a film with unique characters, themed around Ramadan and Eid, and spanning a number of genres.

0.0

Year:

2024

Fishmonger

In this supernatural dark comedy, a pathetic Irish fishmonger must survive a sex pact with an ancient fish creature in order to save his mother's soul from burning in hell.

9.0

Year:

2023

War Pony

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.

6.5

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2023

The Inspection

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.

6.2

Year:

2022

Nzu

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.

0.0

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2022

Remote

Two young siblings make an extraterrestrial new friend, just as their family-owned pawn shop is attacked by criminals.

0.0

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2022

Karmalink

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.

4.3

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2022

Freeze

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.

6.0

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2020

Blocks

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

6.2

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2020

Coffee Shop Names

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

4.0

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2020

The 8th Year of the Emergency

Lil is eight years into her struggle with Alzheimer's and sometimes she can't find the right words. But, a visit from her family inspires a moment of ecstatic clarity.

0.0

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2019

Bug Bite

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

0.0

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2019

Metronome (In Time)

An elderly ailing maestro and a young piano prodigy venture out of their musical isolation in hopes of selling their beloved piano.

0.0

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2019

Hair Wolf

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

7.1

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2018

Sketch

A police sketch artist who believes he has stumbled upon the suspect from one of his drawings becomes convinced he knows how to do the right thing.

0.0

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2017

The Poet and the Professor

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.

0.0

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2017

Fry Day

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.

5.8

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2017

Collective: Unconscious

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

6.2

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2016

With Yuri

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.

0.0

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2016

Everybody Dies!

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

5.0

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2016

Darknet Delivery: A Silk Road Story

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

0.0

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2015

Afronauts

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.

6.7

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2014

Radon’s Daughters

The fates of two New Mexican families collide at a Dia de los Muertos celebration in a uranium-tainted church.

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