“Award-winning filmmaker Pedro Valiente explores new narratives through visual theater, writing, and visual art. He has received two Berlinale awards and an Emmy Award nomination, along with nearly sixty honors, including screenings at over 100 film festivals (Sundance, SXSW), TV networks (PBS, BBC, TVE, Canal+), and presentations at MoMA, Whitney Biennial, and Lincoln Center. Pedro’s film career began in New York, where he studied and worked for over ten years. He has also lived in Mexico City and the UK, and has worked in twenty-two countries.” I Press 

[New York Spin] "Part experimental tone poem, part heartfelt elegy for 9/11 and part paean to the cultural richness of Gotham, [NYS] focuses on six New Yorkers. [...] This engrossing, imagistic portrait of the city and its denizens should prove a welcome short addition to fest and arty cable lineups." Ronnie Scheib, Variety. "This film shows filmmaking talent." Carole Dean, Roy W. Dean Foundation, NY. "I'm fascinated by this project: concept, people, structure, everything intrigues me." Deborah Cravey, Digital Media Center, Portland.

[Cuba 15] "It's as delightful as anything I've seen upon a television screen." Robert Lloyd, LA Times. "She's irresistible. We learn more from her in 15min than from a half-dozen feature documentaries." Amy Taubin, NY The Village Voice. I Awards

The Buzz

Filmmaking

“Pedro produced Cuba 15 by Elizabeth Schub, which won the Jury Prize and Audience Award for Best Short Film at Berlinale (Panorama), screened at over 40 festivals, and aired on POV (PBS). He also worked on films produced by Steven Soderbergh and Spike Lee, and collaborated at Saturday Night Live (NBC), Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, and The Rockefeller Foundation. He co-produced Forgetful, which won sixteen awards.” I IMDb

You Are Mythical

(2018, Spain, 80:00) seven young Europeans connect their daily life with classic myths. Non-fiction film exploring new narratives, produced in five countries, won awards in two film festivals in L.A. I You Are Mythical

New York Spin

(2002, Spain/US, 87:00, 63:00) portrait of New Yorkers lives and dreams. The film follows 24 characters for two years turning into a celebration of diversity. Honors in 40+ film festivals. I New York Spin

Visual Theater

“Pedro participated in workshops with the Wooster Group, Trisha Brown Dance Company, and Atsushi Takenouchi, and presented Japanese butoh dance at Mexico City's National Center for the Arts. In Madrid, he coordinated a theater-dance company inspired by Joan Brossa and Kazuo Ohno and directed a university theater company that used video on stage in early performances of works by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Sergi Belbel, and Julio Cortázar.” I IMDb

Robert Wilson

Video design collaboration for three years in New York for The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson. PhD dissertation and book series on Wilson’s creative process.

The Days Before DDDIII

(1999, US/Italy, 105min) by Robert Wilson with Umberto Eco (text), Ryuichi Sakamoto (music), Suzushi Hanayagi (choreography) ft. Fiona Shaw,  Isabella Rossellini, et al., co-produced by Lincoln Center. I Robert Wilson I The Days Before DDDIII

Filmmaking I Visual Theater I Poetry

Writing

Screenwriting for film/media. Texts for visual theater in Mexico City. Poetic writing. Articles published in Madrid and New York.

“You Are Mythical and New York Spin documentary feature films, are transmedia projects. I look at technology on stage as in Monster’s Decalogue a girl teaches language to a monster, and in Flying Fish Over Mexico Gondwana and Laurasia continents split up. My poetic writing feeds all my work. In Giant Dragons trilogy, Memories of Uruguay is a love story; The Numbers of Earth travels through the 20th century history and a lifetime; and Giant Dragons is inspired by fantastic tales from Medieval China. Most recent is The Book of B blending fiction and self-fiction in form of a children’s book.” —PV

Video Art Trilogy

Intallations

Multiple Portraits is a series of contemporary ‘paintings in motion‘. The classic film language is deconstructed as action is fragmented in simultaneous screens. Anthropology meets digital cultures. Tarahumara Project (2024, Mexico, 7:00), Humans in the Desert (2022, Jordan, 6:00), Penelope is Waiting (2015, Spain, 7:00).

Projects

Visual Art

Upcoming projects include work in progress in writing, visual theater-dance, and hybrid artwork.

PROJECTS

International Relations director, NYFA, US I BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Practice program leader, AUP, UK I  European Project media director, UC3M, Spain I International Film Festival director, Mexico I Film/TV Event director, Mx.

ART RESEARCH

Early use of video on stage in Madrid. Contact with ‘theater of images‘, and transmedia filmmaking in New York. Creative research in technology.

EDUCATION

PhD Audiovisual Creativity and Production, MA Cinema Studies, MA Journalism. Training in Film, Photo, Writing, Theater/Dance (NY), Visual Art (UK). I Education

UNIVERSITY

10yrs+ in Work Integrated Learning in the US, UK, Spain, and Mexico. Lecturing in filmmaking, digital media, performing arts, and visual art.

New York Film Academy I Arts University Plymouth UK I edX MIT/Harvard University I Universidad Carlos III de Madrid I Tecnológico de Monterrey Mx I Universidad Complutense de Madrid.