Valerie Castillo Martinez
About
Valerie is a Filipina-American writer and producer. With her recent work playing in top festivals such as Venice, Toronto, Busan and winning multiple awards around the globe, she is an original and innovative emerging talent in the creative and producing space. She has an MBA from Wilmington University, an MFA in Film from Columbia University in New York and is a US Air Force veteran. She started IndieFlip to make films on underrepresented communities and subjects with cross cultural themes.
Gathering support from institutions such as Doha Film Institute, Caucus Foundation, Katharina Otto Bernstein, Tribeca Film Institute and Film Independent, she has won accolades such as the Entertainment Partners Best Producer award while her first feature screenplay DEATH OF NINTENDO also received faculty honors at the CUFF screenwriting competition.
She was selected for Film Independent’s Project Involve Fellowship and Producing Lab. The following year, she was hired to co-manage the program, being executive producer on six short films which premiered at the 2018 LA Film Festival.
Death of Nintendo
Set in 90's suburban Manila, the story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of these four 13-year old friends, back in the days when videogames were still a novelty. Mimaw and her friends Paolo, Kachi and Gilligan go on a journey of self-discovery together as they play games and wrestle with new dilemmas - puppy love, circumcision and other horror stories.