Vince Chandler

Award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Denver, CO.

Vince Chandler is a photographer and filmmaker with twenty years of professional experience creating art and documentary visuals across the United States. His professional career includes roles as Director of Communications for Denver City Councilwoman Shontel M. Lewis, Digital Content Strategist for National Cannabis Industry Association and Colorado Rising and Chief Content Officer of ƒ/4.20 Films.

He has worked in electoral politics from the local and regional levels, to lobbying the federal government in D.C. Vince moved to Denver in 2014 to be the founding Multimedia Editor for The Denver Post’s DPtv and The Cannabist, earning national recognition and awards, including a Heartland EMMY nomination for his work as a visual journalist for The Denver Post. He was principal cinematographer for the feature documentary film Running With My Girls, which premiered at the Denver Film Festival in 2021.

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Features Overview

 
 
 
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City Council Disrupted by Racist Comment, Minutes Before Proclamation for Last Victims

"That was a hard pivot to make, for sure," Lewis's aide, Vince Chandler, adds. "It's always unacceptable behavior. That was foul. ... Twice in the last three weeks we've had to deal with racism in this chamber. Denver's a better city than that, for sure. But unfortunately, it still exists in this world."

For Denver activists and lawmakers, police response to attack on U.S. Capitol highlights disparity in treatment of Black and brown protestors

“Looking at images of the attempted coups, Chandler said it struck him that the Capitol police weren’t acting as assertively as he’d seen them act at left-oriented protests and that they didn’t seem to employ techniques like kettling, which he said they’ve historically used to control crowds.

‘It felt like a retreat,’ he said, ‘which doesn’t feel like the American police force I’ve been coming into contact with since Ferguson.’”

 
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Colorado sets standard for federal decriminalization

“The sky did not fall in Colorado when voters regulated cannabis. In fact, quite the opposite happened: Colorado has set the gold standard that more than a dozen other states have already followed by ending their failed prohibition policies.”

 
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Senate hopefuls should heed pot's political power

“Anyone who would hope for this essential industry’s support in the Senate race in November could take care to demonstrate it now by supporting this initiative in the upper chamber.”

 
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At risk of robbery, cash-and-carry cannabis vendors need federal 'SAFE' act's help

“Cannabis businesses are at an increased risk for robbery because federal regulations force many operators to exist in an all-cash environment with little access to banking or financial services. A wealth of cash on hand, without access to banking, makes the places where it is stored vulnerable to burglary, whether it is a dispensary, a grow, or under a budtender’s mattress in a shoebox because their accounts were locked out — ​again​.”

 
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For modern progressive liberals, love can win, but it will take some personal heroism

It’s easy to feel exhausted, disenfranchised and apathetic. The turmoil of 2016 feels long in the past, and it is natural to want to conserve energy for 2020. But, collectively, we cannot. We have to remember to support and celebrate daily, not just when the calendar and Instagram insist that we do.