Geoffrey de Valois is a renowned American writer/director/editor with a career spanning over 25 years, having directed numerous indie films and created captivating content for prominent clients such as ABC, Disney, IBM, Sony, and PBS.
Since 2022, he has produced over 30 short films utilizing generative AI, culminating in his award-winning 2024 film "AI Anthology" and his latest 2025 film "Beyond Time," which seamlessly combines live action and AI.
Throughout his illustrious career, he has written, produced, directed, shot, and edited over 500 television programs, commercials, films, promos, business videos, documentaries, and computer animation sequences.
In 2019, he completed directing his fifth feature film, "The Girl From Provence," a psychological thriller set in Los Angeles and Provence, France, which premiered as the opening night film at the 16th Annual Other Venice Film Festival.
Additionally, he re-released his updated documentary "Decommissioning Our Nuclear Future with Ralph Nader" and created the pro-immigration short dance film "No Entry." His new art photography book, "LA Woman," is available on Blurb and Amazon, while his book "Computer Visions" was published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
With over 3 million views on YouTube, his fashion and makeup "how-to" videos have garnered significant attention. His public television docu-drama "Love Has The Right To Choose - The Emma B. Freeman Story" was released in 2008 and is now available on Vimeo.
Notably, his films "Computer Visions" and "Computer Dreams" were the top-selling non-fiction laserdiscs in Japan in 1991 and were re-released in 2008 as part of "The History of Computer Animation."
Geoffrey de Valois holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and a Master of Arts degree in film production, with additional studies in art, poetry, and journalism.
Throughout his career, he has worked on various projects, including staff positions at Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic, visual effects on "Star Wars - Return of the Jedi," "Star Trek - Search For Spock," and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." He also worked at IBM as a television writer/producer/director/editor.
His academic career includes 10 years of teaching film and television production at San Francisco State, San Jose State, Cal Poly Humboldt, and Cal State Los Angeles.
As a keynote speaker, he has spoken at Video Expo LA in 1990 and was a judge and keynote speaker at FIFOM - the 1990 and 1992 Montreal International Computer Graphics Film Festivals. His programs have been showcased in over 70 countries and have won numerous awards, including Best Documentary at both the Mill Valley Film Festival and San Jose "Joey" Awards, 3 Cine Golden Eagles, 2 Houston International Film Festival Gold Awards, 2 US Film Festival Gold Awards, and several CINDY and TELLY Awards.
His 1994 "Stud" was the first Mandarin/English language hip-hop music video, widely played across China, along with his NightFire video "Jump It." The 1995 16mm cult black comedy "The Vampire Conspiracy" debuted at the Cannes Film Market, being the first indie feature edited on a non-linear editing system and the first full-length feature film to be streamed on the internet.
