People

Valeria Richter

Denmark

Biography

Creative Producer and Scriptwriter Valeria Richter works internationally and writes, develops, coaches and consults in the areas of feature film, TV series, workshop innovation, pitching and script development since 1997; she consults for various funds, festivals and film institutes in the areas of project selection, assessment, and tailored labs. She has developed several concepts, recently Nordic Genre Boost for Nordisk Film & TV Fond, POWR for Baltic Event, Engage with CTIFMF, and she works for TorinoFilmLab since 2008. Since 2004 she works in her own companies, Pebble and Nordic Factory Copenhagen, and has co-produced features and documentaries, such as “Granny’s Dancing on the Table”, “The Feminist” (Sweden), “Cora” (Brazil), “Alien Food” (Italy). Currently she showruns a fiction TV series in collaboration with Bufo, Helsinki. In 2014, she premiered (as producer) 4 short films at Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes FF at a special event screening. One of the films, “Listen”, won Best Narrative Short 2015, Tribeca FF, was nominated as EFA Best European Short, and has won 50+ awards at over 150 festivals; it is available online via Staff Pick on Vimeo. Valeria taught Film Adaptation at the University of Cph. and holds an MA in Film & Media Science; she has a background in distribution, festivals, and production, is a graduate producer of the Danish Super16 film-collective and since 2009, member of the European Film Academy.

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