Danielle Varga is an award-winning nonfiction producer who has been working in documentary film for the past decade. She focuses on creatively ambitious and distinct projects. She was the recipient of the 2025 Sundance Institute | Amazon MGM Studios Producer Award for nonfiction film.
Varga most recently produced Seeds, directed by Brittany Shyne, which won the Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2025 in US Documentary Competition. She also produced Sasha Wortzel’s River of Grass, which will premiere at the True/False Film Festival 2025.
She produced the critically acclaimed film, The Hottest August (True/False 2024) and co-produced the oscar-shortlisted film Cameraperson (Sundance 2016, Criterion Collection) and award-winning The Stroll. (Sundance 2023, HBO). Her additional recent producing credits include A Photographic Memory (True/False 2024), Light of the Setting Sun (Full Frame, IDFA 2024) and Bulletproof (SXSW 2020). Varga was a 2016/2017 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow.
Varga produces films under her production company, Walking Productions, and through collaborations with other filmmakers, producers and production companies making bold and singular work.