WALNUT & ROSE PICTURES is the production company of Jennifer Steinman Sternin, an award-winning filmmaker with over 25 years of experience in television and filmmaking. Jennifer has established herself professionally as a creative storyteller with the ability to tap into the heart, emotion and cultural significance of a story.  She directs, produces and edits her own film projects, does commissioned work for various television, corporate and commercial clients, and consults and collaborates with fellow independent filmmakers.

Jennifer's directing and producing credits include "Hi, I'm Nancy Rubin" (Director/Executive Producer, HBO/Magnolia), "Gramma & Ginga: The Movie" (Director, Peacock/Tubi), "Desert Runners" (Director/Producer, DirecTV/Netflix) and "Motherland" (Director/Producer, SXSW Audience Award Winner). She also produced Emmy Award® winner "Time for Ilhan" (Tribeca Film Festival/Amazon Prime), and was the co-writer and a field producer for two seasons of "Dear Santa, The Series" (Hulu). Her fiction directing debut, "The Other Road," is currently on the film festival circuit.

Jennifer is also an accomplished film editor whose films have been accepted into many major film festivals including Tribeca, Toronto and Sundance. Recent editor credits include Jennifer Siebel Newsom's "Miss Representation: Rise Up" (Tribeca Festival, 2026), "Second Nature" from Executive Producer Elliot Page (SXSW Edu, 2026), "Thaw" (DocLands, 2025), "Dear Santa" (IFC Films, TribecaX Award Winner). Jennifer was the Lead Editor of "Pick of the Litter: The Series" (Disney+), and has edited content for ABC, MTV, PBS, Discovery, Nat Geo and many other television networks. She won a Telly Award and has been nominated for an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing.

Jennifer is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), The Alliance of Women Directors (AWD), The Documentary Producers' Alliance (DPA), and she is the Founder of the Bay Area Women Directors' Collective. She currently has two feature films, two short films and a non-fiction series in development, and does speaking engagements around the world.  You can watch her TEDx TALK  here.