Vincent Lin (林子璿) is a writer, director, and founder of VALIANT PICTURES, a leading bicoastal minority-owned commercial production company (Inc. 5000, Forbes Next 1000). He is a Top 50 semi-finalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship and has won some of advertising’s top awards including Cannes Lions, Clios, Tellys, and made Taiwanese American’s “Best of 2020” List. Along with producing feature film Clementine (Dir: Lara Gallagher, IFP Film Lab, Sundance Creative Producing Summit, Tribeca ‘19), Academy Award qualifying short film In France, Michelle is a Man's Name (Dir: Em Weinstein, Grand Jury Award Outfest ’20 and Slamdance ’21), and Snakehead (Dir: Evan Jackson Leong, Acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions), he is a winner of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant Program, a member of The Producer’s Guild of America (PGA), a former board member for Taiwanese American Professionals (501c3), on the judging committee for NYU’s The Purple List, the Shots Awards, and an Outstanding 50 Honoree by the Asian American Business Development Center. He is currently working on his debut feature film, Chopin.
He once planted a Pokemon card to see if it would grow a Pokemon. It did not.