Maurizio P. Vasco, television director

Television director

A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

, video journalist, author

Author

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 and chef

Chef

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was born in Italy

Italy

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 (1955) and raised amid Apulia

Apulia

Apulia is a region in Southern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its most southern portion, known as Salento peninsula, forms a high heel on the "boot" of Italy. The region comprises , and...

, Tuscany

Tuscany

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 and Milan

Milan

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 where he studied History, Photography and Television after he attended the Naval School of La Maddalena

La Maddalena

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-Sardinia

Sardinia

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He took his first steps in the Media Industry in 1978, publishing his photos on Weekend Magazine and his stories on Universo's Comics.

He completed his education in New York City

Education in New York City

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 in the early 1980s through the New School for Social Research and The Global Village Video Studies Center.

Television

He is a former permanent employee of Videotime-Mediaset

Mediaset

Mediaset S.p.A., known as Gruppo Mediaset in Italian, is an Italian-based media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country...

, contributor of Italian and International Media Organizations, including: RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

, Mediaset

Mediaset

Mediaset S.p.A., known as Gruppo Mediaset in Italian, is an Italian-based media company which is the largest commercial broadcaster in the country...

, Telepiu' (actual SKY

Sky

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), Studio Pontaccio, Rewire.com.
MPV has directed and/or produced numerous television programs and series including: Elton John

Elton John

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- the One, Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

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's at the Roxy

Roxy

-Brands:* Roxy , women's brand of clothing, accessories, and snowboards by Quiksilver company for surfing* The Roxy Theatre, music venue in Los Angeles & online source for music, arts, culture, and more.-Names:...

 in 1983, Soccer's Stars and Legends, "The Lie Detector" (La Macchina della Verita') with Giancarlo Santalmassi, Scrondo, "Focus", "Viva Le Donne", Moda, Mr. Billion

Mr. Billion

-Plot:Guido Falcone , an easygoing Italian mechanic, is heir to a billion-dollar inheritance after his uncle dies in a freak accident. In order to claim his inheritance, he must reach San Francisco within twenty days to sign a document...

(Mister Miliardo), Tandem, Notorious

Notorious

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, "Bim Bum Bam" with Paolo Bonolis, "The Milan

Milan

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 International Commercial-Film Award " with Fiorello

Fiorello

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, "Mediaset's All Stars Christmas Promo" as Production Manager and "Fine Secolo"(the End of the Century) with Adriano Sofri

Adriano Sofri

Adriano Sofri is an Italian intellectual, a journalist and a writer.Former leader of the autonomist movement Lotta Continua in the 1960s, he was arrested in 1988 and convicted to 22 years of prison, having been found guilty of being the instigator of the murder of Luigi Calabresi, a police...

. He has been rewarded at 1984-1989 editions of Filmmaker the Milan Independent

Independent film

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 Film Festival

Film festival

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. Maurizio P Vasco, is an Accredited Senior Member of the New York

New York

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's Foreign Press

News media

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 since 1997.

Writing

He has written the first edition of Mister Papa -together with Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara

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 and Fernanda Pivano

Fernanda Pivano

Fernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.Born in Genoa, as a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum. In 1941 she received a bachelor's degree with a thesis on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, which earned her a prize...

- (the controversial Passage to Italy

Italy

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 of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

 ), The Miracle of the Bell Tower (a metaphorical return to an idealized South) "Human Intercourses Vortex" a grotesque drama about the HIV 's fear/paranoia and Lyons and the East Village Tales (autobiographical novel). In 1996 he founded Alpahazet Magazine and Spirals, two Internet Ventures and Propaganda, a creative circle of recruiting and developing for the New York's hospitality industry

Hospitality industry

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New projects: "Desperate House Husbands" the stories of four divorced (forced to house) Italian-Americans newyorkers and " Ash is what remains of a fire" (the epistolary of an ended story): works in progress. Two of his stories/articles have been published on Corriere della Sera

Corriere della Sera

The Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper, published in Milan.It is among the oldest and most reputable Italian newspapers. Its main rivals are Rome's La Repubblica and Turin's La Stampa.- History :...

 and La Repubblica

La Repubblica

la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. Founded in 1976 in Rome by the journalist Eugenio Scalfari, as of 2008 is the second largest circulation newspaper, behind the Corriere della Sera.-Foundation:...

 Cultural pages.

Travels

He has extensively traveled and resided for many years in Africa, Middle East

Middle East

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, India, Asia, Europe and USA.
His motto: Viribus Unitis

Viribus Unitis

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"Our Unity is our Force" (Engraved on the Battleship "Vittorio Veneto

Vittorio Veneto

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" the Italian Navy

Italian Navy

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 Admiral Vessel, where he served in 1974).

Maurizio P Vasco is also a certified maritime captain

Captain (nautical)

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 (former Italian Navy

Italian Navy

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 J. Officer) and holds an international license as a sailing/motor boat skipper. He is a US citizen

United States nationality law

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 and resides in New York City

New York City

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Chef Vasco

Since 1993 MPV has, parallel to his primary career, cultivated a passion for gastronomy, wines and culinary arts: Today is a professional executive chef and restauranteur who has created and realized menus for many Manhattan ventures as: Anarchy

Anarchy

Anarchy , has more than one colloquial definition. In the United States, the term "anarchy" typically is meant to refer to a society which lacks publicly recognized government or violently enforced political authority...

 Cafe, Bacco, Gallo Nero, TaciOpera

Opera

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, Porta Toscana, Mambo.
His book " Celebrity chefs can't cook!" is about to come out.