Valentine "Tino" Freeman is a multidisciplinary Creative Director in advertising, music video, and film, and a poet. Her film work has received the Sundance NEXT Innovator Award, and her ad work has garnered three Cannes Lions, three ADC Cubes and four Clios. Her writing has been featured in The Believer, Weekday Journal by Publication Studio, Portland Review, and Livermore Street, and her chapbook “What’s Truly is Feral” was selected by Marvin Bell for his New Poets Series with Lost Horse Press.
Valentine was Costume Designer on
We The Animals, a Sundance Lab feature based off Justin Torres' New York Times best-selling novel of the same title, and she is currently developing a feature script and a television pilot. She has served on several juries and panels including Cannes Lions, ADC, Altitude Summit, CAA Global Fellows, Free the Bid, and The 3% Movement, and as a professional mentor to young female, non-binary and queer creatives.
Valentine has also worked as an academic archivist, pizza thrower, nanny, office secretary, writing tutor, data entry clerk, maid, organ player, and bartender at a Texas sushi train. She lives, laughs and loves in California with her wife, puppy, and a blind cat named
Muffin.
Film
NEXT Innovator Award, Sundance Film Festival
U.S. Centerpiece, Outfest
Best Films of Sundance 2018, Roger Ebert
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Awarded to We the Animals, dir. by Jeremiah Zagar
Advertising + Hospitality
Cannes Lions +++
ADC Cubes +++
Clios ++++
FWA +
Webbies +++++
PAPER ++
LA Conservancy +
PSFK Good Brands +
Wallpaper* +
Dwell on Design +
Condé Nast +
Press
Broadly
Free the Bid
Broadsheet
New York TimesThe Advocate
Adweek
LA Conservancy
Architectural Digest
Colleagues
Creative Artists Agency
Wieden+Kennedy
CUNY
Art & Architecture
NBC Universal
Atelier Ace
Ace Hotel
Clients
Apple
Google
Airbnb
Burberry
Fred Segal
Rodarte
Hunger Is
The Magnetic Fields
Esquire Network
Disneyland
Opening Ceremony
Chevrolet
Canada Goose
Stumptown Coffee
Converse
Umpqua Bank
Levi’s
Your Mom
