Mike deSeve

Mike deSeve (a.k.a. Mike de Seve, Mike de Sève) is an animated television and feature-film director and screenwriter, whose directoral credits include the "Beavis and Butt-Head" series, the feature "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America," Sesame Street, Cartoon Network's "Sheep in the BIg City" and NBC's "Father of the Pride", as well as advertising campaigns for 7-Up and MTV and myriad series, feature and pilot work for Dreamworks Animation (Madagascar), Nickelodeon and Disney.
DeSeve's screenwriting and supervising work has included the position of story editor the full run of the top-rated Fox/4Kids animated series "Viva Pinata" (a co-production with Microsoft and video game producer Rare. As of 2008 he was signed to co-write a feature for Steve Oedekerk(Bruce Almighty), and Griffin/Bacal (The Tick, G.I. Joe) and recently completed a feature script for Shrek producer John Williams at Vanguard Animation, and story editing and screenwriting work on the planned CW/4Kids series "Rocket Monkeys."
In 2009, stemming from his involvement with political activism, deSeve was signed to adapt New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer's best-selling book All the Shah's Men, the story of the CIA's secret 1953 coup of Mohammed Mossadegh's democratically elected government of Iran.
As a political activist, deSeve's work in the 2004 Republican National Convention protests was widely reported: the March of One Thousand Coffins" commemorating the U.S.'s fallen troops in the Iraq War, was conceived and executed by deSeve and his team as a silent visual tribute and "testament to the true cost of the war." One thousand was chosen as the number of full-size, flag-draped coffins to be paraded because as of the week of the convention the one thousandth American soldier was projected to be killed in the Iraq War. It is of note that this one thousand figure has long since been dwarfed by the March 23, 2008 total of four thousand fallen U.S. troops. (Estimates of the current total military and non-military dead in Iraq range from tens to hundreds of times these numbers.)
The coffins demonstration, a focal point of United for Peace and Justice's record-breaking protest on August 29, 2004, made international headlines as a pointed rebuke of the George W. Bush administration's much-falted attempt to squelch all images of fallen soldiers by categorizing all such photos as "classified." Following this event, the flag-draped tribute coffins became a nationally-known symbol of dissent in the media and in the work of peace groups to end the Iraq War, adopted by Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Cindy Sheehan, among others.

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