Chris Valentini Promoted to Senior Vice President, Production Unapix Entertainment, Inc.NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 29, 1999-- Chris Valentini has been promoted to senior vice president, production of Unapix Entertainment, Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange : UPX UPX Ultimate Packer for eXecutables UPX Ulead Photo Express ), announced David A. Dreilinger, COO. Mr. Valentini has been with the company since July, 1997 as vice president of production for the North America Division. "This promotion is in recognition of the excellence and scope of Chris' accomplishments with the company," commented Mr. Dreilinger. "As Unapix continues to expand its production activities and its library of feature films, reality and fiction programming, the parameters of supervising production for the company have greatly increased. Chris has met this challenge with consummate professionalism." In his new role, Mr. Valentini will supervise all fiction and non-fiction production for Unapix. Currently, he is overseeing the production of over 30 hours of non-fiction programming for The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and numerous international broadcasters as well as overseeing the production of several feature films. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements in production, including two national Daytime Emmy Awards; a CableACE Award; a Golden Apple, Cine Golden Eagle and an Invasion Award. He has produced programming for many major domestic and international broadcasters, including The Disney Channel, Discovery Networks, NHK NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) NHK Nihon Hoso Kyokai (Japanese Broadcasting Association) NHK Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai (anime) , La Cinquieme, RAI, SABC SABC South African Broadcasting Corporation and CBC (1) (Cell Broadcast Center) See cell broadcast. (2) (Cipher Block Chaining) In cryptography, a mode of operation that combines the ciphertext of one block with the plaintext of the next block. . Prior to joining Unapix, Mr. Valentini was general manager and executive producer of programming at IVN Communications in San Ramon, CA. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University • • [ and Diablo Valley College Diablo Valley College (DVC) is a two-year community college in Pleasant Hill in Contra Costa County, California. DVC is one of three publicly supported two-year community colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District (along with Contra Costa College and Los . Unapix Entertainment Inc. (AMEX: UPX/www.unapixent.com) is a global entertainment company specializing in distributing, producing, and licensing market driven feature films, television programming and special interest home video in all media worldwide. The Company also distributes its products to specialized markets via the Internet and other new electronic media. |
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