Vince D'Amato

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Vince was born in Vancouver, B.C. sometime back in the Seventies. Though Vince completed a condensed curriculum of the creative writing program at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University in 1993, he is a self-taught filmmaker, editor, and screenwriter.

His filmmaking bug really began in 1998 when he became involved in an independent production titled The Faculty in Austin, Texas, where he had a chance to meet and work with producer Elizabeth Avelan (Spy Kids 1 & 2) and director Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City). In the fall of 1998, Vince began to shoot his own independent film, an unfinished vampire opus titled Jenny Jacks. Having never attended film school, Vince had a professional camera operator teach him how to use & operate the 16-millimeter Arriflex film camera. In 2001, Vince worked briefly as a volunteer and representative for the independent schlock-movie company TROMA in Cannes, Santa Monica and Victoria (yes, Victoria, B.C.)

Using all this erratic filmmaking and film-marketing experience as a launching pad, Vince has since produced, written, edited, shot, and directed three commercial feature films in the horror genre – Vampires vs. Zombies, Human Nature, and Hell Hath No Fury, all of which have received worldwide video and television distribution. Since 2004, Vince also directed two music videos, an environmental documentary, and has been hired to write and/or edit several other projects – including videos for the popular American metal band Necrophagia and the upcoming horror feature from Plotdigger Films in Vancouver, Live Feed. He has also written over 200 film/DVD reviews for the Vancouver media website hollywoodnorthreport.com.