“I am a visual storyteller in times of digital cultures. I have created immersive projects that span across the arts, innovation, and higher education. My work aims to engage, and challenge, always rooted in the human experience.”

“Award-winning filmmaker Pedro Valiente explores narratives across the arts. 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, RTVE, Canal+), and presentations at MoMA, PS1, 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, while engaging in work in more than twenty countries.

Pedro describes his practice as "interdisciplinary and multicultural on the idea of 'ecology of souls'." Selected projects include the video installation trilogy Multiple Portraits, and You Are Mythical, documentary film connecting daily life with classic myths, which won awards in two film festivals in Los Angeles.

In New York Spin, "a part experimental tone poem, part heartfelt elegy for 9/11, and part paean to the cultural richness of Gotham," Pedro 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," wrote Ronnie Scheib in Variety. Carole Dean of the Roy W. Dean Foundation called it "filmmaking talent," while Deborah Cravey from the Digital Media Center remarked, "I'm fascinated by this project: concept, people, structure, everything intrigues me."

Cuba 15 was a standout success, with LA Times calling it "as delightful as anything I've seen upon a television screen." Amy Taubin of The Village Voice praised its protagonist, saying, "We learn more from her in 15 minutes than from a half-dozen feature documentaries." Pedro produced Cuba 15 by Elizabeth Schub, which won the Jury and Audience Awards for Best Short Film at Berlinale (Panorama), screened at over 40 festivals, and aired on POV (PBS). He also collaborated in projects produced by Steven Soderbergh and Spike Lee; as well as for NBC's Saturday Night Live, Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, and The Rockefeller Foundation. He co-produced Forgetful, featuring Gal Soler and Ana Torrent, which won 16 awards.

In performing arts, Pedro collaborated for three years on video design for The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson, with text by Umberto Eco and music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, featuring Fiona Shaw and Isabella Rossellini at Lincoln Center. Pedro also authored a PhD dissertation that became a book series on Wilson's creative process. He participated in workshops with The Wooster Group, Trisha Brown Dance Company, and Atsushi Takenouchi; and presented Kazuo Ohno's Butoh at Mexico's National Center for the Arts. In Madrid, he coordinated a theater-dance company inspired by Joan Brossa, and directed a university theater company that made an early use of video on stage, premiering works by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Sergi Belbel, and Julio Cortázar.

Pedro's work includes roles as International Relations director at New York Film Academy, Film MOOC collaborator for edX's MIT/Harvard University, BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Practice program leader at Arts University Plymouth (UK), and European Project media director at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He has lectured internationally mostly at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. Pedro holds a PhD in Audiovisual Creativity and Production, alongside MA's in Cinema Studies and Journalism. He has received training in Film, Photography, Writing, Theater/Dance (NY), and Visual Art (UK)." I IMDb

Narratives across the arts. • FILMMAKING You Are Mythical I New York Spin (feature films) Cuba 15 I Forgetful (short films) I TV Series • VISUAL THEATER Robert Wilson’s The Days Before DDDIII I Butoh I Tilmun Teatro.

WRITING for film and visual theater. Poetry. Drama books. PhD dissertation. Articles on the arts in Madrid and New York. • VISUAL ART Multiple Portraits installations. Sites, photo, digital art. Screenings at MoMA, PS1, Whitney Biennial (NY), art centers (Spain, Italy, UK).

Artwork

Projects in the arts mostly at universities. • New York Film Academy NYFA (US), International Relations director • Arts University Plymouth AUP (UK), BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Practice program leader • International Film Festival Cancun Riviera Maya (MX) director • European Project Universidad Carlos III de Madrid UC3M (Spain) media director • Film/TV Event Televisa (MX) director.

Projects

Work Integrated Learning (WIL) for 10yrs+ in the US, UK, Spain, Mexico, Jordan • FOCUS Hybrid Projects, Transmedia Storytelling, Independent Cinema, Theater of Images • PROGRAMS Filmmaking, TV Production, Directing, Writing, Performing Arts, Visual Art • BAs Film, Media, Design • MA Transmedia Documentary Film • PhD Media Arts • CENTERS NYFA edX MIT/Harvard (US), AUP (UK), UC3M (ES), Tecnológico de Monterrey (MX), et al.

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