📸: Katie Hall
Vanessa Jimenez graduated from art school with a degree in Video Production. She is an Emmy® and Telly award-winning Video Producer with over twenty years of experience. She began her career in network television as a Marketing Producer/Editor where she was nominated for — and won, multiple Emmy® awards. After a few years in TV, she went to Corporate Productions and produced numerous Bronze Telly Award winning commercials, social media and training videos. With a background in TV and Corporate Productions, she then transitioned into making films in 2016.
Her Documentary Short Film, “The Runner”, tells the story of a regular guy who — turned influencer, utilized social media to make dreadful runs fun again for him and his community. The film won a 2017 Bronze Telly Award.
She later Directed and Edited “The Cinephiles”, a Narrative Short Film that was produced with an all-female crew. It won the “Audience Award” in the Local Flavor film block of the Topaz Film Festival and was an Official Selection at the Hamilton Film Festival in Ontario, Canada.
In her current full time gig, she is the Sr. Digital Media Specialist (a decorative term for Video Producer) for the Communications department at an airline where she has produced multiple Gold, Silver and Bronze Telly Award winning social media, training and Corporate videos.
In 2015, Vanessa joined the Women In Film Dallas non-profit organization as a member and volunteer — and by 2016, she sat on the Board of Directors and led the Public Service Production (PSA) Production Program. That year, as the PSA Chair, one of her proudest moments was leading her first all-female production crew to produce a Public Service Announcement for the Ft. Worth, TX non-profit organization, Alliance For Children. The PSA went on to win a Bronze Telly Award.
She has spoken about her work at workshops and Q & A panels like the Filmmaker Panel: UTA & How to be a PA (at the University of Texas in Arlington in 2021), the Women In Film Dallas (WIFD) Production Bootcamps (in 2017 and 2018) where she hosted the “Post Production Workshop: Editing in Premiere Pro” and also taught a “Résumés and Reels” course to teach others how to make a great impression both on paper and with their work visually.
Her professional memberships have included: Women In Film Dallas, the Dallas Producers Association (DPA), the National Association of Latin Producers (NALIP), the Texas Motion Picture Alliance (TMPA), the Dallas Film Society (DFS), the Dallas Screenwriters Association (DSA), the DFW Hispanic Communicators, the ProMaxBDA International Association For Entertainment Marketing Professionals, the Lone Star Emmy® Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Texas Association of Motion Media Professionals (TAMMP) and the Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB).
In her spare time she enjoys reading, traveling, taking photographs and considers herself a lifelong learner. For more information, or to book her for a project, please contact her. She is based out of Dallas, TX and is available for travel.
