Bio and Affiliation
F. Miguel Valenti is a Los Angeles based educator, filmmaker, author, and legal and
business counsel.
His book, More Than A Movie: Ethics in Entertainment, published in 2000 by the Perseus
Books Group, formed the foundation of the Arizona State University Film School, which
he founded from scratch in 2006. By the time he left ASU in 2014, the school had
514 film majors. In 2018, the ASU program was rated the 24th best film program by
TheWrap, and is now the Sidney Poitier New American Film School with over 900 majors.
Valenti is also the producer of over two dozen feature film projects, including “Vig” for Lionsgate, produced with Barbra Streisand’s Barwood Film for HBO, “Car Dogs,” starring Academy Award Winner Octavia Spencer, George Lopez and Patric Adams (“Suits”), and “Lost Skeleton of Cadavra” for Sony Tristar, which has spawned four sequels.
His latest production, entitled “The Sintern,” was completed in 2024 and premiered on Tubi in June.
He has co-directed several features, including “Eyes of the Woods,” as well as shorts, industrials and commercial spots.
He has taught at his alma mater, Yale University, Arizona State University and Quinnipiac University, where he created the West Coast Campus program prior to coming to Otis College of Arts and Design to run the Entrepreneurship Minor.
He is the former Managing Partner of The Management Company, an arts management concern specializing in new writers in the entertainment industries.