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Valentina Caniglia is an Italian-American cinematographer and director. [1] She is a member of the European Federation of Cinematographers (IMAGO). [2]
Caniglia was born in Naples, Italy. [3] When she was seven years old, her father bought her a Kodak film stock camera. At the age of eight, when her father showed her films like The Conformist (il Conformista), The Godfather , [4] Blade Runner, Wings of Desire, Farewell my concubine, and Seven Samurai she became interested in Cinematography.
She moved to London to begin a career as a cinematographer, later moving to New York City on a fellowship. She graduated from New York University in film production [3] and began work in feature films, TV series, commercials, music videos and documentaries. [4]
Caniglia has worked in the USA since 2001. [5]
She is known for her lighting and camera work on movies, TV series, commercials, and music videos like The Stand. [6] For her work on the period film Madeline's Oil , she won Best Cinematography award at the Louisiana International film festival. [2] [7] She worked on the film Pomegranates and Myrrh , [3] [8] winner of the Golden Dagger at the Muscat Film Festival for Best Cinematography. [8] The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, [3] and received the Best Film Award at Doha Tribeca Film Festival. [8] Among other films Caniglia worked on Soyka and has been the two times winner for best Cinematography award at New York Cinematography awards, Canadian Cinematography awards; Fire In Water where she won the best Cinematography award at Los Angeles film festival and was included in the Teen Vogue article among the Cinematographers behind some of the biggest movies awards; [9]
Among the notable works by Valentina Caniglia are Without Grace starring Emmy Award winner Ann Dowd, the Cinematography work for 3 Days Rising starring Mickey Rourke, Ice-T, Peter Greene, a black and white film Adieu Lacan starring David Patrick Kelly, Tape directed by Deborah Kampmeier (The Gilded Age, Star Trek:Picard, Harlan Coben's Shelter, Clarice, Queen Sugar, Tales of the Walking Dead, Virgin, Hounddog) starring Isabelle Fuhrman, and her Cinematography on the video "Stand for a Change" starring Vanessa Williams and Billy Porter.
Valentina's Cinematography is shown at the Apple TV series Dear X S2 starring Viola Davis, Ava DuVernay, Jane Fonda, Sandra Oh, André Leon Talley, Selena Gomez and the latest TV series The Captain, directed by Randy Wilkins 7 Executive Producers by Spike Lee, Mike Tollin (Eureka Entertainment)
Caniglia's lighting and camera work can also be seen as an additional Cinematography on the Original Netflix series, Gypsy starring Naomi Watts.
Caniglia directed The Amytal Therapy which was nominated for best director at the Chelsea film festival and London International film festival.
Caniglia has worked as a Cinematographer for HBO, Netflix, Voyage TV Showtime. [3] She has filmed numerous nationally aired commercials for British Airways, Ford Motor Company, Nike, GBX Shoes, which received the Telly Award. [3] Caniglia has worked on music videos for Aesop Rock, which was number one on MTV's top ten chart; Enzo Gragnaniello; The Roots; Articolo 31, The Stein, [3] and Jessie Lynn Madera. [10]
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Director of Photography: Valentina Caniglia
Director of Photography: Valentina Caniglia
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