Valerie has been working in the field of film and video production for the past twenty years as Producer, Director, Writer, Associate Producer and Researcher.  In 1998, she founded Share Productions, an independent video production company that produces documentaries that explore class, gender and race issues, and the challenges and benefits that ethnic and religious diversity bring to society.  The company strives to create programs that are entertaining, informative and can stimulate dialogue to foster greater understanding among people of different cultures. 

Share Productions first undertaking was the production of Shalom Ireland which was produced, directed and written by Valerie and is her first feature length film.  The one-hour documentary, inspired by Valerie's discovery that her Lithuanian great-grandparents were the first Jewish couple to be married in Waterford, Ireland, is about Irelands remarkable, yet little known Jewish community.  The film has met with great success on the film festival circuit with more than 100 screenings scheduled around the world so far.

Valerie recently directed and produced Everywhere We Go, a 40-minute video documenting the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, a twelve day bus journey across America taken by immigrant workers to focus public attention on the difficulties facing immigrant workers and to call for reform of U.S. immigration policy.  The video, which is being use to help build a new civil rights movement for immigrant workers and their families, aired on Free Speech TV in 2006.

While working as an Associate Producer on KQED TVs documentary series Bay Window,  Valerie won two Emmy awards for Price of Prosperity: Squeezed Out, which examines how middle income families are struggling to survive in Silicon Valley; and Heart of the Game about personal relationships in non-professional sports.  She contributed to numerous other award winning documentaries including the KCET special Dropouts which won an Emmy, and the PBS special Not In Our Town which won the National Educational Media Film & Video Festival Gold Apple, the National Education Association Excellence in Broadcasting Award, the CINE Gold Eagle and the Jewish Video Festival Lindheim Award.  Not In Our Town is the story of the residents of Billings, Montana who joined together to fight against anti-Semitism and white supremacist activity in their community.  The accompanying outreach campaign, comprised of a series of film screenings throughout the country, received widespread acclaim and served as a model for how films can stimulate social activism.   

Andy is a creative and experienced editor and post production supervision with an extensive background in national and international productions.  He has worked on a wide range of award-winning documentaries and shorts for ABC News, BBC, The Discovery Channel, LucasFilm LTD., PBS, and TBS.  Andy has won several Peabody Awards, and International and National Emmys.  Andy’s Editing, Sound Design and Post Production Supervisor credits include: The People’s Century, a 26-part series for PBS and the BBC, which won Peabody and International Emmy Awards; Rock & Roll, a ten-part series for PBS and the BBC, which won Peabody and National Emmy Awards; Moon Shot, a four-part series for TBS which won Peabody and National Emmy Awards; The Making of STAR WARS, Episode I: The Phantom Menace; the 3-part series for PBSWhat’s Up in the Universe?; WNET and The Discovery Channel’s Cathedrals of the Sky; WGBH’s Nova: Alive on Everest and The Tribe That Time Forgot; Blackside Inc.’s six-part series for PBS Breakthrough on scientists of color; Magnolia Films documentary for PBS, Rumi: Poet of the Heart; America, a ten-part series and De Gaulle and France, a three part historical documentary for WGBH; ^{and PBS Frontline programs on California’s electricity crisis and safety and environmental concerns of SUVs.}

Mimi Ash, Archival Materials Research

Gabrielle Brocklesby, Archival Materials Research

Sigal Landesberg, Archival Materials Research

Travis Green, Graphics Assistant and Digitizer

Gerardo Castoreno Additional Graphics

Samantha Hardie, Intern

Kathleen Skillicorn, Intern