Green Dragon Pictures

Green Dragon Pictures is a movie production company started in Annapolis, Maryland and is currently based in New York, New York.

Michael Vincent grew up in a valley with a stream that ran through it. One day his grandpa gave him a magical machine that captured life and played it back on a VCR in the TV room. The TV room looks the same but the images are very different and are subject to the approval of grandma. Recent visions have made their way onto bigger screens in different places and to different sets of eyes. Vincent likes to explore with his friends and to discover new things so he can make movies about them. (Read the full bio here.)

Michael Vincent was born in a farm house in Pennsylvania and raised by his grandparents in a valley with a stream that ran through it. His early interest in film came from watching the hundreds of films that his grandfather copied from the local drug store. As a young child his mother moved him and his younger brother to the shores of Annapolis Maryland. With the huge VHS camcorder that his grandfather gave him he started filming everything he could and made friends by making movies. During high school Vincent convinced the Manager of the local art Cinema to let him be a projectionist though state law prohibited this by anyone under 18. He made the bargain by selling tickets, making popcorn and starting the movies all by himself which was easy since the usual attendance was about 3 and their teeth were often too soft for popcorn. After High School Michael began filming sailing races for the local yacht club and tediously editing the often tiresome footage into somewhat exciting material. Finally he was offered an internship on a film in New York, so he found an apartment on craigslist and took the chinatown bus the next day to the big city. Working 18 hour days in 100 plus degree heat in a studio warehouse in brooklyn during the month of August Vincent was reassured that he had found his calling. He tattooed Film Maker on his body and vowed that that is what he must do. Ever since he has resided in New York finding work with Directors with whom he holds the highest respect. Michael has worked for auteurs Larry Fessenden, Kelly Reichardt, Glenn McQuaid, Robert Pulcini, Sheri Springer Berman and James Felix Mckenney as well as underground Film Maker Richard Sandler. He mostly makes his living now in the editing room but every free moment is spent creating his own work and his latest film ‘Dream Girl’ is the result of that over the course of a year.

Jess Jacobson is one of the three founding members of Green Dragon Pictures and edited Oracle Serious with Vincent in one evening. He runs the website.

Alexander Vogt joined Green Dragon Pictures in 2005 and produced the seminal shorts The Grass is Greener (with Brent Kunkle), Lighthouse and Vice Scream. In addition, he edited Vice Scream with Michael Vincent. He is also responsible for launching Green Dragon Pictures’ 8mm Film Production division with a borrowed Nikon R10.

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