Valerie Veatch is a writer and director known for her captivating storytelling. Making her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with the hit documentary "Me @ The Zoo" (HBO), her highly anticipated second feature documentary, Korean language feature titled "Love Child" (HBO), also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Veatch is a graduate of the New School for Social Research with a degree in Culture and Media Studies. Her award-winning work deals with the intersection of technology and society and has been internationally exhibited at renowned institutions such as the New Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and MoMA.

 

"The director does not overreach in her message and most of the story is left to the witnesses to tell." —  NEWSWEEK 

 

"Love Child is a mind boggling film that comes across like 'Catfish' reinvented by David Cronenberg with a script by Thomas Pynchon." — BOSTON GLOBE 

 

"Love Child illustrates the difficulty in defining how much time online is too much.  The question is already hard to answer and Love Child points to a future where this will only get harder." — WIRED

 

"Love Child confidently delivers. ★★★★★" — HITFIX 

 

"Director Valerie Veatch wants to raise questions about how -and how much -a virtual-world experience could influence real-life human senses and decisions." 

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