CREATIVE WORK
Director-Writer-actor-Cinematographer
STILL HUNTING
A veteran turned hunter living in the city shoots coyotes for the local butcher until he has to turn his barrel on a new younger hunter intent on ruining his life. Starring John Henry Richardson, Alex Crawford, Ryan the Leader, Pablo Garcia. Directed by Chris Vinan. Written by Chris Vinan and Nahuel Vilar.
CRACKED-SHORT FILM
Starring YouTube star and comedian, Ryan the Leader, Cracked is about the 21st century obsession with our distractive devices. Our personalities only exist as they are curated by ourselves. Co-Directed by Chris Vinan and Ian Eck. Filmed by Christian Colwell and Chris Vinan.
BAD PEOPLE SWEET DEALS
In the modern wild west, a used car salesman gets his prized lemon stolen from his carlot. Will the Indian get his car back from the cowboy? Find out in Bad People Sweet Deals. Bad People in ever-worsening situations.
Directors Chris Vinan and Nahuel Vilar cast Silicon Valley CEO, Pankaj Malviya and star tenor saxophone player Joseph Miller in Bad People Sweet Deals. Streaming on Amazon. From this production, Sweet Deals Entertainment was born.
Inboxed-Short Film
A startup so fresh its starting up inside of s startup. Three men secretly start a company behind their Steve Jobs wannabe boss. Starring Pankaj Malviya and Eric Roberts.
EL ULTIMO SABOR-SHORT FILM
Made within a quick vacation to Mexico City, Chris Vinan along with Mike Gioia, wrote, cast, and managed to find every location for a quick short film about a food critic that has tasted it all and knows that the only new flavor left to experience is the taste of death. Meanwhile, a chef opens a restaurant with the gimmick dish of scorpion poison ravioli which leads him to his fate.
SON ROMPE PERA-MI VIDA SIN TU AMOR
Featured on Billboard, this video was shot around various locations in Mexico City in October 2019 by Chris Vinan, showing a more intimate side of the group as they stroll through various street markets and get ready for shows in cramped backstages before giving their absolute all on-stage and collapsing after a chaotic punk finale. Its a candid view of everyday Mexican life over a ska backbeat, as this rising young band improvs their way to the top.
LONG BEACH BURNS
A very shared video that showcases Chris’ ability to act fast with a camera. Chris was able to capture footage of arsonists setting fire to a building,. The footage caught the attention of Federal Fire Marshalls, the FBI, NBC, FOX, and ABC. Footage of the Long Beach Protests on May 31st 2020. Fires being set. crazy footage. The footage was eventually used for Michael Plaster’s documentary of the same name.
RICH DAD POOR DAD: A TALE OF TWO STARTUPS
It was the best of times, it was the most blockchain of times. Underneath the skyscrapers, those in the dirt dream of the climb. The eternal ascension into the higher rungs of the social ladder. Men reaching for the 87th, 88th, and 104th floors. Higher positions, higher salaries, a higher height to fall from. Two startup entrepreneurs venture into the vicious veins of venture capitalism.
BERKELEY PROTEST FOOTAGE FOR NBC
Our involvement with NBC has come unexpectedly a couple of times. One day, Chris Vinan was leaving class at UC Berkeley and found himself in the country’s line of sight. In the heat of the literal fire caused by the Milo Yiannopoulos protests, he grabbed his camera and filmed everything. The footage became some of the most sought after by Fox, ABC, and NBC. There was even a moment of bidding between the three companies. Eventually, he sold it to NBC and Nahuel Vilar edited this into what would become a controversial video on reddit, sparking arguments and hate from the left and right.
KENNIETH PERRIN-FOCUS
A cartoonish music video for a funky pop tune! Kennieth Perrin is two suns of energy in Andre’s journey through too many jobs towards the girl of his dreams.
ONE MINUTE IN... (SERIES)
With a knack for talking himself into situations, Chris’ camera films alongside the ride. Candid clips assembled to capture a gritty version of Monaco, Paris, Marrakech, Mexico City, Prague, Budapest, San Francisco, Casablanca, and Las Vegas.
WALTER ETC-ME VS. ALGORITHM
A surrealist satire about becoming successful and abandoning your life and passions in the process. Watch a beach bum transform into a too-plastic bun-head with too much in his pockets.
WITHIN THE WINDOWS-BUENOS AIRES SCENE
A story told through WhatsApp, takes a suspicious boyfriend through the overwhelming streets of Buenos Aires. Is Sofia cheating?
BAD PEOPLE (SHORT SERIES)
Bad People is a series about shitty people in shitty situations. Shit attracts flies and every character bring obstacles with them. Watch the stench.
CORBEEZY-JEALOUSY MACHINE (FT. JOHN F, MELODY)
A n india music video thay explores camera movement and its musical synchronicity with lyricism and musician’s style.
WITHIN THE WINDOWS (SERIES)
In the hypothetical near future, too much data has been collected from people. Companies now pay workers to sift through hoards of information to determine what is deletable. These are the stories found in the deleted files.
COMEDIC COMMERCIALS
With so much content being pushed around, creativity and humor become more important as markers of unique productions.
MAJIC MEOWS-MONSTER MEOWSH
An avant-garde and stylistic capture of a California Cannabis company’s event.
MEDBOT
HAZEL-FASHION SHORT
Hazel is a fashion film meant to break the norms of the fashion film. Marketing clothing usually involves ideal people in ideal situations. But we can never predict what we will be wearing when. Our film is about pretty people and pretty clothing in ugly situations.
WITHIN THE WINDOWS-LONDON SCENE
With only one day to script, plan, and shoot, Chris Vinan created this short about a babysitter experience balancing friends, children, and cocaine.
GO BETTY GO-DROWN (MUSIC VIDEO)
Our creativity shone here in a music video produced for the LA-Based Rock Band, Go-Betty-Go. The band, famous for pushing the punk scene forward in the early 2000s, worked with YourPeople to create a music video summarizing their Nevada and Arizona tour. The product was a realistic depiction that rang true to the spirit of the area. It was also the video that premiered their single “Drown.”
JESUS MOLINA-VIDEO EN VIVO (MUSIC VIDEO)
Working with a wide variety of artists, Chris used drone videography and his own dynamic camera movements to capture famous jazz musician, Jesus Molina. Known for blowing people away at NAMM, Jesus Molina has wowed millions after rising to the ranks of legendary jazz musicians at only a quarter of their age.
IM IN CHINATOWN
Bad people in bad situations. Jack, a modern day asshole, drags everyone along with him on his road to nowhere. How much does a gram of bud really cost? Being a sociopath is what he does best.
EATING WELL WITH MURIEL
Muriel Angot is a superstar French chef based at HSN. Married to entrepreneur Andrew Lessman, the two sold a best-selling cookbook titled, “Everyday Eating with Andrew and Muriel.“
Now, using video to market her best-selling cookbook (1M+), Muriel has runs a cooking show centered around healthy eating and conscious cooking. Tune in for comedy and cooking sautéed together for your visual enjoyment.
PORTLAND PROTEST FOOTAGE
Footage of the Portland Protests on July 31st – August 1st 2020. Footage features kids running rampant in the streets and smoking cigarettes!
GO BETTY GO-BY YOUR SIDE
“By Your Side” by Go Betty Go from the EP ‘Reboot,’ available now • Order at https://gobettygo.bigcartel.com/ Listen to the full EP: https://bit.ly/2NOC0Nh
SKETCH COMEDY
Mixing improvisational comedy and scripted content to blur the lines of what is taboo and what is funny. The beginning of my directing, acting, and writing interests.
JUMANJI IV - A GLITCH IN TIME
Mixing fictional scenes and candid camera footage with unsuspecting actors, two founders of an up and coming successful movie effects startup are torn apart by differing visions. One wants to create a tech company and the other strives to produce their magnum opus in the form of the fourth installment of the Jumanji franchise.
ANDY BLACKCRANE-LITTLE WARRIOR
Glendale street musician performs covers but writes original music. This dramatic journey of the western spirit uses tai-chi to deliver its sonic punches.
RIO MIRA-MUSIC VIDEO
Using frenetic editing and camera styles to capture the insanely energetic and eclectic music of the NPR featured artists, Rio Mira.
GUANACO MC-LEJOS (CYPHER-MERCADO DE BANOS DE AGUA SANTA)
Very influential Ecuadorian artist, Guanaco MC, has millions of fans with chart topping hits across Latin America. A fan of the one take, Guanaco wanted his rap video to be raw and real. Mixing real people into the mix, Chris created a sporadic, energetic, and spontaneous video in a bustling Ecuadorian market.
MORE MUSIC VIDEOS...
Having produced content for various artists has led to more projects with various artists.