Biography
Noel Vega has worked in the entertainment industry since 1989, primarily as a Producer and a Stunt Action Director for Video Games, TV and Indie Movies. The video games he has worked on have sold over $20 billion and include NC Soft's Lineage, most of the Call of Duty titles, all the UFC games (THQ), and other franchise titles including Spiderman, Ultimate Avengers, James Bond, Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, True Crime, Clone Wars and many more. His client list includes Namco-Bandai, Microsoft, Activision, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, NC Soft, EA, SEGA, THQ, and dozens more. The Citizen, a feature he produced, was voted a Top 10 movie of 2013 by Examiner and a Best Movie of the American Film Market (AFM) 2012 by Daily Variety. Sundance Audience Award Winner A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was voted "Best Movie on Netflix 2015" by Yahoo and "Coolest Movie on Netflix of 2015" by Business Insider. In addition to domestic USA films, he has also worked on movies for international companies including Wanda Pictures, Emperor Motion Pictures, Fox International Japan, Disney India, Discovery Channel and Eros International. Noel has worked with Academy award winning directors including Oliver Stone and Katherine Bigelow, Chinese directors including Tsui Hark and Sammo Hung, India's SV Krishna Reddy, and Academy award winning actors including Faye Dunaway and Sir Ben Kinglsey, and with global stars such as Egypt's Khaled Nabawy, China's Jet Li, Hong Kong's Jackie Chan, the UK's Anthony Hopkins, Germany's Udo Kier and India's Saif Ali Khan. Noel loves foreign productions (a wonderful learning experience) and has collaborated extensively with foreign producers and production companies. He has a lot of experience filming in rebate states and countries. Noel's company, AMG Films, is a registered official China co-production entity that completed USA & China filming of 46 episodes of For Honor (China title: Sunset River), all shot in 8K, with executive producers Han Sanping and Zhao Jun. He has worked on a #1 reality TV show (Deadliest Warrior), and a #1 scripted Network TV show (Martial Law). He recently finished action choreography for WB Independent's American Fighter and Wheels of Fortune (directed by Shaun Piccinino). His diverse entertainment industry experience also includes action choreography on the Harry Potter Ride demo for Universal Studios (2003), assisting the Shanghai Film Bureau and Shanghai International Film Festival (including opening the 1995 Cannes Film Festival with director Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad), managed Edward James Olmos' Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (1998 & 1999), and co-founded the Los Angeles Feel Good Film Festival (2007), and directing various live multi-camera live concerts for China Central Television (CCTV, various years). He is an alumni of New York University and a member of Directors Guild of America, SAG/AFTRA and Producers Guild of America. He speaks English, Spanish and Filipino fluently, along with some Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese and Mandarin. He mentors when time allows.
