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Vince Sanchez-Sambrano is a Venezuelan born Production Designer, Art Director, Producer and Writer based out of Los Angeles, California, specializing in Film, Television and branded content.

Vince commenced his studies at the prestigious Arturo Michelena Art Academy in Valencia, Venezuela, and acquired over 8 years of experience in the theater industry, becoming a lead actor in several classic and contemporary plays, such as La Casa de Bernarda Alba (2004), Hamlet (2005), Romeo and Juliet (2005-2006), Rock para una Abuela Virgen (2006), El Día que Me Quieras (2010).

Later on, he began diving into his passion for filmmaking, participating as a Set Designer, Costume Designer and Assistant Director and improved his career in the US with classes, workshops while experimenting on his own in the audiovisual field. Some of his recent work credits include Award-winning AJR’s Way Less Sad (2020), Fanny Lu’s Lo que te Perdiste (2021), Award-winning short deMonica (2021), Tempus (2021), Sell/Buy/Date (2021), Disney+ 4Ever (2023), What She Doesn’t Know (2023), We’re Not Married? (2023) and more recently the reinterpretation of the Warner Brothers’ classic Rebel Without A Cause (2024).

Last year, the feature film “The Shadow of the Sun" (La Sombra del Sol) where he was the Production Designer, was selected as Venezuela’s official entry for the International Film Category at the 96th Academy Award.

As an immigrant and member of the LGBTQ+, Vince believes in the power of community and lifting one another in order to become one stronger and indivisible unit. He volunteered his time as the leadman on the Youth Cinema Project’s (YCP) first ever short film powered by Amazon, an organization that focuses on closing the opportunity gap in the film industry by offering a platform for kids in underrepresented communities that would like to experience and work in the entertainment industry. He’s back at it this year, but this time around he will be hosting a series of workshops on Production Design to the 2024 YCP Cohort. He has also produced and designed several films that are part of The LALIFF Inclusion Fellowship. Vince also runs the Dumbo Film Festival in Dumbo, New York City.

In 2022, Vince and 3 friends decided to become partners and created a boutique production supplies company called OnlyVans that targets small indie films and strives to be one less obstacle in the stressful process that working with budgetary constraints represents by offering products and services tailored to them.

More recently, Vince was the Production Designer on Rebel Without A Cause, reimagining one of the most iconic films ever made by Warner Brothers’ Studios Rebel Without a Cause celebrating the Studios’ 100th Anniversary.

Vince became a member of the Television Academy in 2023 and joined the Art Directors Guild (ADG), IATSE Local 800 in 2024.