Elaine Del Valle
FILMMAKER - TELLER OF STORIES
GABRIELLE GLORE | Creative Producer | Urbanworld Festival Director
"Elaine is a case study in perseverance."
Bio
Elaine Del Valle is a native New York, Puerto Rican Director, and multi-hyphenate Storyteller.
Her awards include the HBO Latinx Director award, the LALIFF | LFI | Amazon-MGM works-in-progress independent feature film post-production grant and from festivals including SXSW, Urbanworld, Catalyst Stories, Seriesfest and more.
Born To Tell Stories
G-L-OWING UP
Backstory
I grew up as the youngest of four, enveloped in the love of an altruistic, righteous mother and her ten siblings who used humor and Vicks Vapor Rub as cure-alls. Family get-togethers meant forming an assembly line to make Puerto Rican pasteles and laughing through tears at their endless joke-filled recollections, seemingly in competition for the best childhood trauma. Their disarming way of sharing wisdom through their wounds and using laughter to develop shame resilience continues to inform my artistic approach. It has ingrained in me the healing power of storytelling.
We lived in Brownsville, Brooklyn--the murder capital of New York--a community more populated than 98.5% of the nation's neighborhoods.
LUCINDA MARTINEZ | VP Multicultural Marketing | HBOmax | Netflix
"A Vanguard"
LESLIE COHEN | SVP Acquisitions HBOmax | Content Development MediaPro TV
"Prepared... Listens... Adapts"
"True Visionary... Immense Talent"
ANDREA NAVEDO | Actor | Jane the Virgin
