Danielle Varga is an independent nonfiction producer who has been working in documentary film for over a decade.
She most recently produced Vicky Du’s Light of the Setting Sun (Full Frame 2024), and Rachel Elizabeth’s Seed A Photographic Memory (True/False 2024).
Her prior producing credits includes Todd Chandler’s Bulletproof (SXSW 2020, winner of Hot Doc’s International Emerging Filmmaker Award) and Brett Story’s critically acclaimed The Hottest August (True/False 2019), named one of the best films of the year by Rolling Stone, Variety, Indiewire and others. Varga co-produced The Stroll (Sundance 2023) and the award-winning and Oscar shortlisted film Cameraperson (Sundance 2016). She has produced commissioned programming, including a recent episode for the PBS Peabody Award-winning series Art21. Varga’s work can be seen on PBS’s Independent Lens and POV series, HBO, Mubi, Apple TV, Amazon and elsewhere. She has been a consulting producer, archival producer and field producer on a number of additional documentaries for film and television.
Varga has been an advisor for Sundance’s producing fellows, and has mentored filmmakers through Kartemquin Films and Union Docs emerging filmmaker programs. She has pitched projects at Hot Docs Forum, CPH:DOX Forum, Sheffield MeetMarket, Gotham Week and the Sundance Creative Producing Summit. Varga was a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and listed on DOC NYC’s list of “40 Under 40” filmmakers to watch.
Varga produces films under her production company, Walking Productions, and through collaborations with other filmmakers, producers and production companies making bold and singular work.