VINCENTE FRANCO
Vicente Franco has been a Director of Photography all over the world for more than twenty-five years. He was a 2003 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and Emmy nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Daughter from DaNang, winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2002 Grand Jury Prize. He was Director of Photography on 3 other Academy Award nominees: The Barber of Birmingham (2012), The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2010), and Freedom On My Mind (1994). He won the Silver Apple/Latin American Studies Association for Cuba Va: the Challenge of the Next Generation. He is an accomplished cinematographer of documentaries, drama, news and public affairs who won a Peabody for coverage of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. His recent credits include the PBS series Latino Americans, and Latin Music USA, He also shot The Storm That Swept Mexico, Don’t Stop Believin’:Everyman’s Journey, Botany of Desire, Orozco Man of Fire, Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi, The Fight in the Fields, The Good War as well as Summer of Love, which he co-produced and co-directed for the PBS/American Experience series, about the SF Haight Ashbury hippie community in 1967.Vicente Franco is one of the most respected documentary cinematographers working in the US. He has shot numerous award-winning films including Academy Award nominated films, Daughter from Danang, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. Other recent films include Finding the Gold Within, Havana Curveball; Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey; Standing on Sacred Ground: Fire and Ice and Frontline's Rape in the Fields. He recently shot a segment of Hard Earned produced by Kartemquin Films. He shot the US segments of Soft Vengeance and was Director of Photography on Abby’s films, Soul of Justice and Cruz Reynoso.