Biografi
Vince is a Filipino-American producer, writer and director, based in Paris, France.
With twenty-some years of filmmaking experience in the Hollywood studio system and streaming services under his belt, Vince is setting his sights on telling filmed stories in the European and Southeast Asia film industries.
Vince had originally intended to pursue a career in advertising after a three year stint as an US Army Officer, but pivoted into the film industry when he took an offer to work as a production assistant for producer James Kellahin at Warner Brothers in 1994. Within the first two weeks of taking the job, he was promoted to production coordinator for a Chiat/Day Energizer Bunny commercial and, soon after, he was hooked on film. He spent a couple years in video operations at Paramount Pictures before being accepted into the Directors Guild Training Program, where the 400 day apprenticeship program gave him the valuable hands-on film set experience with veterans in the major studios and networks.
Upon completion from the DGA Training Program in 1998, Vince embarked on a twenty year career as an assistant director on feature films and episodic television working alongside many of the world's best directors, producers, performers and craftspeople. He has also produced independent projects.
In 2012 he was accepted into the Disney/ABC Directing Fellowship with intentions to be a director in dramatic episodic TV series. Instead, Vince pivoted into comedy. After studying improv at Upright Citizens Brigade and directing the comedy troupe Lypton Station for three years, he worked as a first assistant director and producer on various comedy series under many successful comedy creators and performers.
Upon discovering a calling to tell more personal stories that were outside the traditional American genres, Vince again changed his creative direction. Meanwhile, he sought to utilize his veteran experience and apply it into independent and non-traditional filmmaking formats.
In 2020, he served as the Head of Production for Re:Anime, a YouTube channel with over a million subscribers worldwide, focusing on producing anime stories into live action projects, testing a film production approach that he felt would serve him to tell the kinds of stories that didn't rely on the traditional American gatekeepers.
Vince moved to Paris at the end of 2021 to pursue his personal filmmaking voice and is seeking a film team to carry out the system he began with Re:Anime.
He also runs his high performance and creative coaching program, Stay On Your Path, where he mentors people to find and express their creative voices, with an emphasis on underrepresented communities all over the world.
Vince is a member of the Directors Guild of America.
