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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FEATURE LENGTH FILMS

Running With My Girls

Principal Cinematographer

Film Synopsis: Tired of watching local government ignore their communities’ interests, five diverse female activists decide to run for municipal office in Denver — one of the fastest gentrifying cities in the country. It begins when Shontel Lewis wins a transit board seat, inspiring four women who worked on her campaign – Dr. Lisa Calderón, Candi CdeBaca, Shayla Richard, and Veronica Barela – to make the unusual decision to run as a cohort. They quickly realize that in politics, large sums of money can convince voters to overlook scandals, empty promises, and shallow relationships with the community.  

With only a fraction of the funds of their incumbent opponents, the women tirelessly knock doors, make calls, and rely on each other to power their grassroots campaigns. Using an intimate and unfiltered style to tell each candidate’s story, filmmaker Rebekah Henderson honestly portrays the challenges faced by political outsiders, particularly women of color, while also revealing their tenacious commitment to justice and democracy. Ultimately, RUNNING WITH MY GIRLS is a lesson about an engaged community outrunning the deep pockets of the political establishment and a demonstration that building a new kind of political power is not just aspirational but possible. 

POLITICAL ADS

Director – Auont’ai Anderson reelection announcement.

DIGITAL DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

 

This Heartland EMMY-nominated piece took viewers to Mason Jar Event Group's Yoga with a View, where like-minded cannabis aficionados are given the opportunity for a high-end marijuana-infused morning of yoga and brunch. The strains are tailored specifically for the activity, founder Kendal Norris works closely with dispensaries to make sure that her guests are getting the right high. This piece was shot for The Cannabist.

This NPPA award-winning piece brings the viewer in front of a standing room only sell-out crowd at The Budweiser Rodeo Arena brave men and women welded the doors shut and reinforced the roofs of their cars with the sole intention of driving them in to other vehicles. The Colorado State Fair's Saturday night staple is the demolition derby, promising "spine tingling, metal mashing, pedal to the metal excitement for the entire family." This piece was shot for The Denver Post.

 

From the video series "Joey 'Splains," former Denver Post politics writer Joey Bunch explains the latest fantasy sports bill introduced in the Colorado legislation. Colorado is joining a handful of states where lawmakers are considering legislation to regulate fantasy sports leagues. To them, buying your way into a game with a chance to win big money smells like gambling. This piece was shot for The Denver Post's The Spot Blog.

Winning Last Comic Standing in the show's 4th season launched Denver comedian Josh Blue in to the national spotlight, but the funny man with cerebral palsy has long been known in the Colorado comedy scene. Denver Post journalist Vince Chandler spent the day with Josh on August 27, 2016 when Blue headlined the annual High Plains Comedy Festival's closing night show at 3 Kings Tavern on South Broadway in Denver. This piece was shot for The Know and The Cannabist.

Short Documentary Film

The Cannabist's first Film, produced in 10 days in Southern California and Denver: "As California Goes:" Californians will have the third opportunity in the Golden State's history to legalize recreational marijuana. Voters turned down propositions to legalize in 2010 and 1972, becoming the first to decriminalize cannabis possession in 1976. The state is again divided over adult-use 420-friendly Prop 64. With all polls pointing to a vote for marijuana, The Cannabist's Ricardo Baca and Producer Vince headed to conservative San Diego to test the temperature of the water in California's forgotten cannabis city.

Still Photos

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Eyes on the Mile High. @_timhernandez
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