Joe Dea
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Emmy-winning Director Joe Dea's work has been showcased everywhere from
the New York Museum of Modern Art to prime time broadcast networks. For
the past several years, Dea has been working primarily in the reality
television genre. His career began fresh out of Hartford College Art
School with video shows at New York's Whitney Museum, The Kitchen,
Global Village, and The Optic Nerve. From the New York art video scene,
Dea moved to San Francisco to become a founding member and creative
force behind VideoWest, a ground-breaking comedy/music
video/alternative news production company. During that period, Dea also
honed his directing skills in the emerging music video field. Today,
much of this early, pioneering work is noted in Rolling Stone
Magazine's All-Time Top 100 Videos and Rolling Stone's Music Video Hall
of Fame. His video, "Two Triple Cheese" for Commander Cody and the Lost
Planet Airmen, resides in the permanent collection of the New York
Museum of Modern Art. Dea moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to
work in national television. Since then, he has directed hundreds of
hours in genres such as documentary, reality, comedy sketches, live
music, drama, and animation. His prime-time network specials for NBC
and Fox include: "Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects,"
and "The World's Greatest Stunts." He has directed many segments for
broadcast network, syndicated, and cable reality series. As Senior
Director of the TLC hit "A Wedding Story," Dea directed 48 cinema
verite half-hour episodes, shot all over the United States. Recently
Dea directed "MotorSport Ranch" - a reality racing series airing on
INHD.