School of Visual Arts
  Bob Giraldi
Chair, MFA in Live Action Short Film, School of Visual Arts; President, film director, GIRALDI MEDIA; principal, partner, CatatoniaGiraldi; founder, starchefs.com; founder, Out of Hand International Festival, School of Visual Arts; restauranteur
Education: BFA, Pratt Institute
Commercial spots: More than 3,000 commercials, including Ad Council; Pepsi-Cola campaigns (featuring Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie); Miller Lite campaigns (featuring Rodney Dangerfield, Billy Martin, John Madden, Bob Ueker); Freedom Center Campaign; Evita; A Chorus Line; Dream Girls, The Full Monty
Productions include: Producer, director, writer, Dream Begins, The Routine, A Peculiar City, Honey Trap, My Hometown, City Boy, Second Guessing Grandma; director, producer, Dinner Rush (feature); director, Hiding Out (feature)
Music videos include: Writer, director, "Beat It," Michael Jackson; "Say, Say, Say," Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney; "Just the Two of Us," Will Smith; "Love is a Battlefield," Pat Benatar; "Hello," Lionel Richie; "Loaded," Ricky Martin; "Don’t Drive Drunk," Stevie Wonder
Collections include : Museum of Modern Art, Baseball Hall of Fame
Awards include: Art Directors Club Hall of Fame; Gold Lion, Cannes Film Festival; Grand Award, gold and silver medals, New York Festival; Gold Award, AICP; Gold ADDY; People's Choice Award; CLIO; Billboard Music Video Award; ANDY; Rolling Stone; Hershel Levit Award, Pratt Institute; "One of 101 Stars Behind 100 Years of Advertising," Advertising Age; Who's Who in America; Media Project Shine Award; International Who's Who of Professionals; MTV Video Music Award
Website: http://www.bobgiraldi.com