BIOGRAPHY
OF JOE VALENTI
President
- Valenti Vision Films, Inc.
Joe Valenti, born, raised and current
resident of
New Jersey, made known his love of filmmaking at the early age of thirteen with his first
mock movie titled “Triple Threat”. Following
his high school years Valenti attended
Monmouth
University
where he majored in television production and minored in popular music.
During his years at Monmouth, Joe also attended
New York
University
as part of the
School
of
Continuing Education
focusing on film production. After
leaving NYU, Valenti decided to embark on his first feature film venture which
was titled “Lying Beside You” and Valenti Vision Films was born.
This 16mm feature film was produced for the incredible low budget of
$17,000. The film consisted of a
home-made dolly, innovative independent filmmaking skills, an original
soundtrack and no crew. After
winning an honorable mention for best independent feature film at the Wilmington
Film Festival, Valenti stated it was an honor to win such an award especially
being that the winning film had a $1.2 million budget.
So much for the term: independent filmmaking.
Joe Valenti has worked for AT&T's
ISNN, The
Meadowlands, The Comcast Network, MSNBC, HBO and Time Warner.
Recently, Valenti was awarded two Crystal Vision Awards and eleven Telly Awards for various works. His experience
and award recognition ranges from producing, directing, writing, editing,
graphics design, lighting and set design. His
musical abilities contribute to his filmmaking as he constantly composes music
for his projects. This past year Joe Valenti produced, wrote, directed, shot and
edited an action/adventure series for AT&T titled "The hacking
Chronicles". Three episodes tallying up to a feature length film were
shot for roughly $100,000 and included chase scenes, gun battles, helicopters
and an exploding vehicle. Valenti’s next project, “The Foursome” will begin
shooting fall of 2007 and will hopefully be a continuance of a long line of motion
pictures from Valenti Vision Films.
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GALLERY AND QUICK NOTES FOR JOE VALENTI
PAST
PROJECTS: TRIPLE
THREAT
THE
CHASE
THE CHASE 2
INDIANA
JOE
BIOGRAPHY
OF DAVID WENZEL
Vice
President - Valenti Vision Films, Inc.
David
Wenzel was born in
Methuen
,
Massachusetts
and came to NYC to study acting. David studied martial arts all his life and is
a 4th Degree Black Belt in Issin-Ryu Karate and holds 3 National
Titles. He also boxed
professionally. He has appeared in
a variety of TV series, films, and daytime serials, including Rescue
me,
New Amsterdam
, and Lipstick
Jungle. David’s film work includes Old
Dogs and Duck Hunt (In Trouble
Zone Productions) to name only a few.
He has worked on and off as Brad Pitt’s stand-in/photo double for the
last ten years, beginning with Sleepers.
Through his extensive experience David has cultivated working
relationships with the likes of Fisher Stevens, Hayden Christianson, Scott Ruden,
Jace Alexander, and the great cinematographer, Emmanuel “Chivo”
Lubezki. David teamed up
with Joe Valenti for Hacking Chronicles
when he was cast in the lead role of Noah Saunders.
Joe helped bring David’s vision for Think
Tank to life. Think
Tank, written by David’s brother, Kevin Wenzel, was conceived when David
called Kevin from the set of the Cohen Brothers film Burn
After
Reading
. David and Kevin had
once discussed writing a series based on the concept of Domestic Surveillance
and the CIA. David told Kevin,
“if we don’t write something ourselves I’m never going to make it in this
industry.” As has always been
true for David in his acting career, when the right opportunity didn’t present
itself, he created it.
