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In New York, filmmaking training in a dozen of productions as assistant director, work for Saturday Night Live (NBC), and writers coordination (Vivendi Universal); documentary feature film (RTVE), short film (PBS), TV episode (Deep Dish TV). In Mexico City, TV series and short films (Televisa), Film/TV festival director, and Film/TV visiting lecturer. In Madrid, documentary film for European Project (Canal 22).

Max Steel Camp TV series: education I Growing and Playing TV series: education I Crossing Europe TV documentary film: arts I The World Says No To War TV documentary film: social.

CROSSING EUROPE (2015, Spain, 30min) TV documentary film by Crossing Stages European arts project. Director: Pedro Valiente

Crossing Europe for TV and online networks, produced by Crossing Stages, aired on Canal 22 International, Mexico

SYNOPSIS Crossing Europe is a portrait of Europe today. Artists embark themselves on a challenging adventure to create together through culture a new community. Crossing Europe was filmed in 5 countries and 12 languages from 2013 to 2015 in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and Slovenia. The film follows the process of Crossing Stages arts project that nurtures a European common culture through classic myths. CAST European project participants CREW Director/writer/producer: Pedro Valiente I Executive producer: Sonsoles Herreros Laviña I Writer/coordinating producer/AD: Alfredo Miralles I Coordinating producer/postproduction supervisor: Irene Gómez I DP: Daniel Rodríguez del Pozo I Editor/additional photography/sound design: Fernando Ampuero I Sound mix: Eduardo Burgos I Sound: Andrés Valencia, Jaro Bastarrechea, Marc de Beltrán, Eduardo Burgos I Collaborating agencies: iTek, Threevents TECH INFO Running time: 30min I Year: 2015 I Language: Spanish, Subtitles: English I Format: HD video, color I Country: Spain I A production by Crossing Stages UC3M I © 2015 Crossing Stages UC3M SCREENINGS MEXICO Canal 22 International

FROM THE DIRECTOR “Dance, performance, theater, film, music, technology, visual arts, and academic activities branch out in a unique project. Artists, professionals, scholars, and university students work in the arts as an essential foundation of European culture. The film soundtrack includes Silver by The Grey Havens, Esperance by David Schombert, Stange Row, 6am, and Dripping by Slogan, and songs by other bands like Broke for Free, Origambiro, and Kevin McLeod.” —PV

Crossing Europe Film: Behance I IMDb I Crossing Stages Web Series: Site I Behance I Crossing Stages European Project: Site I Behance I UC3M

THE WORLD SAYS NO TO WAR (2004, United States, 28min) TV documentary film by Deep Dish TV. Co-producer: Pedro Valiente

The World Says No To War for TV and art centers, produced by Deep Dish TV, screened at MoMA and Whitney Biennial.

SYNOPSIS ”The World Says No To War documents the massive protests of people through the world in opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Images from sixteen countries show passionate and creative reactions to militarism and occupation.” It was official selection at Whitney Biennial 2006 in New York as part of the series Shocking and Awful produced/distributed by the satellite network Deep Dish TV. CAST International experts, social leaders, people CREW Co-producers: Georgina Aymerich, Dee Dee Halleck, Lucila Moctezuma, Pedro Valiente TECH INFO Running time: 28min I Year: 2005 I Language: English I Series: Shocking and Awful I Format: HD video, color I Country: United States I A production by Deep Dish TV, New York I © 2005 Deep Dish TV SCREENINGS NEW YORK MoMA I Whitney Biennial 2006

FROM THE PRODUCER “In response to the attempt to shock and awe Iraq into submission, Deep Dish TV put out a call to artists, filmmakers, and editors to create this powerful series. Each of the 12 programs contains segments produced by different artists and activists, collaged together by the program editors. The iconic image for the series is Picasso's Guernica. His agonized, chaotic images of that town suggest the death and destruction suffered by the people of Iraq under two U.S. invasions, twelve years of sanctions and military occupation. The Guernica mural was created to protest the fascist destruction of that Basque town during the Spanish Civil War. Images from Guernica have been recurring icons in many of the anti-war protests around the world. ‘No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy’: Pablo Picasso.” —Deep Dish TV

DEE DEE HALLECK developed and produced The World Says No To War in cooperation with filmmakers from countries such as UK, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Malaysia. Ms. Halleck is founder of Paper Tiger TV, co-founder of Deep Dish TV, and professor emerita in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, US. [IMDb]

The World Says No To War Film: Deep Dish TV I Behance I IMDb

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE I “Through Laurie Churba, costume designer for SNL and Broadway theater, I entered NBC Saturday Night Live as production assistant supporting outdoors filminng in New York and Upstate NY. I attended shows hosted by The Rock and Jennifer López, among others. Later on, I contacted The Rock agency to introduce to him Lester Humphrey from New York Spin; and made a spot for product design by JLo for Select World.” —PV I Photo: SNL original cast I Dwayne Johnson​, Jennifer López I © SNL/NBC

NY MEDIA I Digital media work including writers coordinator at Uproar Interactive Games, at the time acquired by French Vivendi, “global leader in culture, entertainment, media and communications”, including Canal+. Uproar manager Gabriella Stephens invited CEO Kenneth Cron to be featured on New York Spin. Also, production for designer Anna Sui. I Press: TNYT I TWSJ

DIALOGUE I ARTFORUM Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne discuss the 2006 Whitney Biennial (cuarators)

CHRISSIE ILES: You could also add to this the Critical Art Ensemble [CAE] and Center For Land Use Interpretation [CLUI]—or Deep Dish Television [DDTV], a loose, changing group of filmmakers making documentaries in Iraq that are screened in the US. Of course, collective worries me as a term because it implies a project rather specific to the ’60s. If something could be said to have shifted since the last Biennial, it’s in a move away from nostalgia in “art made politically,” as Philippe calls it. There is a very strong political impulse among artists about what’s going on today.

PHILIPPE VERGNE: In a sense, there will actually be at least three exhibitions within the 2006 Biennial: a solo exhibition of work by the artist Sturtevant, who duplicates a historic show by Duchamp; a kind of “emergency room” exhibition featuring groups like CAE and DDTV; and “Down by Law,” an exhibition organized by the Wrong Gallery to deal with what they call the “dark heroes of the American Dream.” And then there is an education program and a series of concerts.” —Chrissie Iles/Philippe Vergne, Artforum, January 2006, Vol. 44, N. 5 I Photo: © Whitney Biennial Exhibition Entrance / Website

REVIEW I THE NEW YORK TIMES Biennial 2006: Short on Pretty, Long on Collaboration “This [biennial] is partly about preaching to the converted. It is packaged—branded might be the better word—as a show long on collaboration and open-endedness: several shows under one roof. But it has other goals too. You wouldn’t say bliss is one of them. […] Conservatives -- also citing Richard Serra's "Stop Bush" poster, antiwar programming from Deep Dish Television Network and three videos by the group Critical Art Ensemble, including one about the tribulations of its own Steven Kurtz, a Buffalo artist indicted by a federal grand jury for obtaining biological materials -- will no doubt dismiss the whole exhibition as another political show like the 1993 biennial.” —Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times

“Unlike most large group shows, [the Biennial] has a point of view. Because [it] is a frankly political exhibition, it demands to be judged within [the curators’] chosen political terms.” —The Burlington Magazine

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