Vincent Nero

Vincent Nero is an film/video graduate from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts part of the Five College Consortium. His academic career consisting of studying every aspect of film/video production began officially his sophomore year of high school enrolling himself in the Film Studies class at Northern Valley Demarest Regional High School after many years of self guided learning. That same year, he then went on to be accepted in the first ever summer screenwriting program at Drexel University where he wrote his first screenplay: Unrequited. During his high school career, Vincent sought out jobs within the industry that proved financially and educationally viable for him. He took a job with an up and coming company Dale and Thomas Popcorn where he expanded and implemented his knowledge of graphic and web design while heading one of the first commercial blogs. Vincent also was a production assistant at The ACORD Organization's ACORDtv, an internet based news and television channel with content for ACORD and their affiliated companies. Vincent took his learning experience with ACORDtv and brought it to Dale and Thomas, where he and Paul Goodman launched the first ever internet based infotainment commercial video shorts featuring Dale and Thomas Popcorn's various products giving a new dimension to internet shopping. Vincent single handedly wrote, produced, directed, shot, and edited 50+ webisodes all the while creating 10 shorts as a successful viral marketing campaign through free outlets. After applying and being accepted to many northeastern film schools, Vincent chose Hampshire College due to its growing reputation and innovated educational structure. He since has been a teachers assistant for a 300 level class, unheard of for a second year student, and has been accepted into highly in demand classes such as upper level screenwriting classes and various production classes based on his academic and creative resume. While at Hampshire College, Vincent has produced 3 feature length screenplays and handfuls of short films outside of his required class projects. Vincent Nero also took the opportunity to study for a semester at London University prestigious arts college, Goldsmiths College, where he took part in their BA Art Practice and Critical Studies courses. As of the fall 2007, Vincent is founder and CEO of Big Penguin Productions, an independent film and video production company that produces high quality shorts with minimal budgets in all genres and formats: fiction, nonfiction, art house, commercial, corporate, animation, scripted, and unscripted. Some of Big Penguin Productions' properties include two franchises (The horror genre masterpiece Black Bettie and the action genre series The Job), soon to be produced screenplays are Teacher's Pet, Widowed, and Mad House, as well as computer animated shorts including the in-production piece by William Colón titled Shoes.