---
name: "Mimi Valdés"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mimi-valdes"
fi1m_id: "mimi-valdes"
imdb_id: "nm1395176"
tmdb_id: 1729245
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T02:25:46.048195+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mimi Valdés

## Identity

Mimi Valdés

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mimi-valdes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mimi-valdes
- **IMDb ID:** nm1395176
- **TMDB ID:** 1729245
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395176/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1729245

Producer. Born in New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395176/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1729245

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Swan Song*](https://film.one/film/swan-song.md) (71)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Mimi Valdés is an American film and television producer. She began her career in journalism, serving as editor-in-chief of Vibe magazine and later Latina magazine.

She is chief creative officer at i am OTHER, the multimedia company founded by Pharrell Williams, where she oversees film and television projects. Valdés has produced or executive produced *Dope* (2015), *Hidden Figures* (2016), *Roxanne Roxanne* (2017), *North Hollywood* (2021), *Swan Song* (2021), *Carmen* (2022), *Harlem* (2021–) and *Piece by Piece* (2024). In 2023 she co-founded the production company Fly Green Socks with Nina Yang Bongiovi.

She won a Primetime Emmy Award as executive producer of the 2020 HBO documentary *We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest*.

*Sources: imdb.com, variety.com, popsugar.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Swan Song* (2021), Fi1m 71, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/swan-song.md)
- *Hidden Figures* (2016), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hidden-figures.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Piece by Piece* (2024), as Mimi Valdés (voice) · Producer
- *Carmen* (2023), Producer
- *Swan Song* (2021), Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/swan-song.md)
- *You're Watching Video Music Box* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Harlem* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *North Hollywood* (2021), Producer
- *Hydration* (2020), Producer, Director
- *We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Brainchild* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *True: Magical Friends* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *True and the Rainbow Kingdom* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *Roxanne Roxanne* (2017), Producer
- *Hidden Figures* (2016), Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/hidden-figures.md)
- *Dope* (2015), Co-Producer, Music Supervisor
- *Weekend Vibe* (2002), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *Untitled Juneteenth Project*, Producer
- *Golden*, Producer

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