Viviane Vives

Education, Awards, and Achievements
• University of Barcelona, Spain, Journalism and Advertising
• NYU, USA, Film and Television
• LAUS prize - Best Advertising Campaign of the Year - by FAD of Barcelona
• Fulbright Scholar for Artistic Studies.
• Writing, Photography, Architecture, Film Awards: Extensive, please see CV
Bio
Viviane Vives majors in Journalism and Advertising at the University of Barcelona and in Film and Television at New York University. She is a Fulbright Scholar for Artistic Studies, and a national LAUS prize recipient for best campaign of the year; she creates the revered Lucky Strike campaign with Patrick Nagel. She is also the writer/director/editor of many commercials, documentaries, and films including the post-launch Spanish campaign for McDonalds and the museum commissioned films Brayton Field and Hands of the Chisholm Trail.
In her parallel career as an actress and presenter, Ms. Vives is the lead on several TV shows, including CBS and BBC productions and she was a reporter and interviewer for National Spanish TV. She also has appeared in such films as Heat, Arlington Road and Life of David Gale.
Ms Vives is the co-principal of a well-known and highly awarded interdisciplinary studio operating as MJ Neal Architects and Barcelona Films and managing and overseeing projects in both, media and architecture, plus development and construction.
She was appointed a visiting professor for a graduate advanced design and film studio at UTA (University of Texas, Arlington) with her husband MJ Neal, FAIA.
Recently, Viviane has become a full time writer/poet/screenwriter. Some of Viviane's recent publications are poetry in the Southeast Missouri University Press, Two short stories, Todo es de Color, Children of Catalunya and Notes From Many Places in Litro Magazine of London, and a ten page story in The Write Launch: "In the oblique and dreamlike style of Marguerite Duras, Viviane Vives weaves memories of her ancestors and place—Nice, Barcelona, Perth, New South Wales, Texas—in “Dialogues With Your Notebook,” a stunning literary achievement.”
She is also a Finalist of the Philadelphia Stories’ Sandy Crimmins National Prize in Poetry and Semifinalist of the American Short(er) Fiction Contest by American Short Fiction. Viviane has been nominated for Best of the Net 2018 for fiction by Burningword Literary Journal and included in their Best of 2018 Anthology.
She writes in both, Spanish and English. Her first language was French and part of her family spoke Catalan at home. She learned Portuguese to be able to read Fernando Pessoa in his native language. In chronological order, the cities she has lived in for an extended
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period of time are: Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, New York, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Los Angeles, Austin, Sydney, and Perth. She's currently back at 'home' in Austin, TX.