Producer, Director, Writer

Producer, Director, Writer: New York, NY

Valerie Visconti is passionate about storytelling and creating videos that authentically capture the human experience, investigate social issues, and/or showcase products, services and programs that improve and save lives.

In 2000, Valerie began her career in video production as an intern for ABC Eyewitness News. She spent over ten years in various positions at Learning Matters TV, a Peabody award-winning and Emmy-nominated nonprofit company that produced reports on education for PBS. At Learning Matters, now known as Education Week Video, she produced, directed, and wrote short-form segments for PBS NewsHour.

Valerie won first prize in the television and documentary feature category at the National Awards for Education Reporting and a CINE Golden Eagle Award for a 12-part PBS NewsHour series she produced chronicling Paul Vallas, the “turnaround” superintendent charged with fixing a deeply troubled and failing Recovery School District in New Orleans. With unparalleled access, the series followed Vallas and the district's principals, teachers, and students over the course of three years after Hurricane Katrina. The series was turned into a documentary, REBIRTH: New Orleans, previously available on Netflix.

Valerie worked on dozens of PBS NewsHour segments and several long-form projects. She was an associate producer on First to Worst, a PBS documentary that explored the rise and fall of California's education system. The documentary won a CINE Golden Eagle and a Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Television Awards. Valerie also field produced a web series, The Real World of Teach for America, which followed first year recruits in New Orleans' most challenging classrooms.

In 2010, Valerie shifted her focus to branded content. She managed, produced, directed, and/or scripted videos for Fortune 500 companies, such as Cisco, JCPenney, eBay, and Nike. For almost a decade, Valerie was the Senior Producer at Ironbound Films, an Emmy-nominated documentary and digital video production company. Her work at Ironbound included Global Problem Solvers, an animated series that follows the adventures of teenage superheroes who use innovation to solve crises around the world.

In December of 2019, Valerie became the Senior Producer of Fly on the Wall Productions. At Fly, she produced and directed a high volume of video projects across various industries such as healthcare, education, social services, and the nonprofit sector. One of her greatest accomplishments was managing production and post production of 90 videos within a five-month period for The Mount Sinai Health System during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since 2023, Valerie joined Indigo Productions as their Head of Production. Indigo is a world renowned video production company that produces compelling visuals for corporate, commercial and entertainment clients.

Throughout her career, Valerie has worked on over 600 video productions that have been used for advertising, education, fundraising, informational, and/or entertainment purposes. She has conducted hundreds of interviews and directed thousands of hours of footage across the world.