Meet Valentina Caniglia of HOLLYWOOD

Today we’d like to introduce you to Valentina Caniglia

Valentina, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
My creative journey started with a camera in my hand as a war photographer and as a dancer on roller skate while I was a regional champion in my youth. I learned how to frame real people who in my imagination became the main characters of a story. I was focusing mainly on their emotions and how I would visually express their feelings, how to light with the creativity, and how to be innovative with all kinds of equipment . Immediately, I fell in love with the other side storytelling and I became a cinematographer who wanted to paint with the natural and artificial light source, dance with the camera for feature films, music videos. commercials, and every projects that allowed me to walk through a creative path with directors.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It has been a long road which sometimes was full of struggles and other times was smooth.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
Valentina Caniglia was filming internationally before attending NYU. She was named in ‘Meet the Cinematographers Behind Some of the Biggest Movies ‘ Vogue’s article, since she has recently been selected by the ASC vision committee to receive the prestigious ASC Vision Mentorship Award program. Valentina is known for her lighting and camera work on movies, Tv series, commercials, music videos for her work on the period film Madeline’s Oil, she won Best Cinematography award at the Louisiana International film festival. She was the cinematographer on the film Pomegranates and Myrrh, winner of the Golden Dagger at the Muscat Film Festival for Best Cinematography. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received the Best Film Award at Doha Tribeca Film Festival. Among other films Caniglia’s incredible cinematography on a black and white feature film Adieu Lacan starring David Patrick Kelly won best cinematography at Cult Critic Movie Awards (CCMA), she is also known for the beautiful emotional frames behind Without Grace starring Emmy award winner Ann Dowd, the extraordinary cinematography work for 3 days rising starring Mickey Rourke, Ice-T, Peter Greene, her brilliant work on the film Tape directed by Deborah Kampmeier (Clarice, Queen Sugar, Tales of the Walking Dead, Virgin, Hounddog) starring Isabelle Fuhrman, marvelous visuals on the film Isola directed by Nora Jaenicke with Fanny Ardant and Johanna Kulig and her stunning cinematography on the video Stand for a Change starring Vanessa Williams, Billy Porter. Soyka two times winner for best cinematography award at New York Cinematography awards, Canadian Cinematography awards ; Fire In Water where Valentina won the best cinematography award at Los Angeles film festival and was included in the TeenVogue article among the cinematographers behind some of the biggest movies awards. Valentina’s wonderful cinematography is shown at the Apple Tv series Dear X S2 starring Viola Davis, Ava DuVernay, Jane Fonda, Selena Gomez and the latest Tv series The Captain directed by Randy Wilkins 7 Executive Producers by Spike Lee, Mike Tollin (Eureka Entrainment). Caniglia’s amazing lighting and camera work can also be seen as an additional Cinematography on the Original Netflix series Gypsy’ ‘starring Naomi Watts, Valentina Caniglia lensed and 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. She has lensed numerous nationally aired commercials for British Airways, Ford Motor Company, Nike, GBX Shoes, which received the Telly Award. Caniglia has worked on music videos for Aesop Rock, which was number one on MTV’s top ten chart ;The Roots; Vanessa Williams ; Miss Peppermint, Jesse Lynn; and The Stein. Valentina Caniglia is a EU and USA citizen.

Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
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Valentina Caniglia