Vincent Pereira
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Vincent Pereira (born March 11, 1973 in New Jersey) is an American independent filmmaker, known for his work with Kevin Smith and View Askew. He is regarded as the unofficial "View Askew Historian".
[edit] Background
Pereira was born and raised in New Jersey. During his junior year of high school, Vincent started working at the Quick Stop and RST Video convinence store, where he met future filmmaker Kevin Smith. The two quickly became friends and would often spend time together while working at the store. When they closed the store at night, the two would often go see independent films at the Angelica Theater in New York. This would eventually result in Smith seeing Slacker, which would inspire him to make his low budget first film Clerks. Pereira served as assistant camera, grip and "cat wrangler" on the film and made a few cameos.
Pereira also worked on Kevin's later films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
[edit] Other Films
In 1997, Kevin Smith financed three film under the View Askew label, Vulgar (where Pereira served as workprint editor), Big Helium Dog (where Pereira served as editor and played a bit part) and A Better Place (which Pereira served as writer, director, editor and played a bit part). A Better Place featured various people involved with View Askew, both on and off camera. The film played at the Angelica Theater under the IFFM (where Clerks was discovered four years earlier). A DVD was released in 2001.
