Valentina Canavesio
Valentina Canavesio is a documentary film and television producer whose debut feature film Footprint premiered at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2016. Her work also includes producing These Birds Walk (2013), My Italian Secret (2014), One Day On Earth (2011). More recently, her film Marianne, about French Muslim women, screened in theaters across the world, gathering several award. Between them, the films have premiered and screened at SXSW, Hot Docs, and the United Nations. Her television work includes having produced the highest rated specials of Italian Public television’s longest running show, Linea Verde.
Her passion for social justice issues has led her around the world for various NGOs and the UN producing short-form content in places such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and the Philippines, often as a one-woman crew. From this work, her film Biblioburro, shot in Colombia, aired repeatedly on PBS and was selected as one of the audience’s favorite stories of the year. The film was later turned into a children’s book that has been translated into five languages.
Valentina holds a BA with honors from the University of Southern California and a Master's degree in International Affairs from Sciences-Po University in Paris.
