Talent Guide

Valerie Steinberg

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2019, Producing Lab 2019

Bio

Named one of Variety’s “10 Producers to Watch” in 2023, Valerie Steinberg is a producer based in LA, whose credits include EP of Riley Keough’s directorial debut War Pony (Cannes ’22, Caméra D’Or winner), and EP of A24’s The Inspection (Golden Globe nominee). She is lead producer of Karmalink, a Cambodian sci-fi feature that opened Venice Critics’ Week ’21. She is EP of Disney’s Bite Size Halloween series on Hulu, and her award-winning short film credits include The Breakthrough (SXSW), Hair Wolf (Sundance), Fry Day (SXSW/Tribeca), and Blocks (Sundance/SXSW). Valerie graduated from Yale University with degrees in Philosophy and Chinese.

Current Project

Not Your Average Queen

Logline

After a controversial ranking app is created for a high school to vote for their prom queen, a gender non-conforming teen decides to run in order to prove a point, but gets sucked into the pressure of traditional beauty standards, becoming the very thing she sought to defeat.