Biography

Jennifer Steinman Sternin has directed, produced and edited award-winning content for film and television for over 20 years. Her credits as Director include "Hi, I'm Nancy Rubin" (Director/Executive Producer, HBOMax/Discovery+, 2022), "Gramma & Ginga: The Movie" (Director, Peacock, 2020), "Desert Runners" (Director/Producer, IDFA, 2013) and "Motherland" (Director/Producer, SXSW Audience Award Winner, 2009). She also Produced Emmy Award® winner "Time for Ilhan" (Tribeca FIlm Festival, 2018), and Field Produced/Co-Wrote "Dear Santa, The Series" (Hulu, 2022). Her fiction Directing debut, "The Other Road" (2023), is on the film festival circuit.

Steinman Sternin is also an accomplished film editor whose films have been accepted into many major film festivals including Tribeca, Rotterdam, and Sundance. Most recently she edited "Dear Santa" (IFC Films, 2020) and was the Lead Editor of "Pick of the Litter: The Series" (Disney+). She has produced and edited content for ABC, MTV, PBS, Discovery, Nat Geo and many other television networks. She won a Telly Award and has been nominated for an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing. Jennifer is the Founder of Walnut & Rose Pictures, a boutique production company in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has several new films in development, has done a TEDx talk and does speaking engagements around the world.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jennifer Steinman Sternin