VINCAS SRUOGINIS*
Editor & Director for Advertising, Brand & Documentary
SUMMARY
Editor and director with two decades shaping story across brand campaigns, documentary, and integrated content — partnering directly with creative directors and clients to turn raw footage and briefs into work that lands emotionally and performs. Fluent across formats and platforms, from long-form narrative to fast-turn social, with deep command of pacing, structure, and sound design as storytelling tools, not just technical steps. Known for stepping into ambiguous briefs and bringing editorial point-of-view — often directing the creative conversation, not just executing it — while mentoring junior editors and managing vendor/freelance teams on larger productions.
EXPERIENCE
Editor, Director & Producer - Faktion Films (formerly Drive Eleven), 2007 - Present
New York Metro Area
• Ability to own projects across the full production slate from development to production to post to finishing to final delivery.
• Manage entire post-production including ingest, edit, graphics, color and sound and ability to coordinate outside vendors to hold consistent creative and brand standards.
• Early, hands-on adopter of AI production tools including Google Veo, Runway, Descript, Topaz used in finished, client approved work.
Adjunct Faculty, Doc Editing - CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, 2021 - 2025
New York Metro Area
• Taught hands-on video editing skills to working journalists and emerging editors, covering narrative structure and post-production craft.
• Mentored students through the process of ideating, directing and editing their capstone film projects.
Staff Editor - Go Robot, 2001 - 2007
New York Metro Area
• Staff editor at one of the most prestigious commercial edit houses of the era. Worked on national broadcast campaigns for major ad agencies such as Ogilvy, BBDO, and McCann which included major brands such as IBM, Sprite, and American Express.
SELECTED WORK• The Invisible Front - feature-length documentary; Reviewed by New York Times and LA Times. Best Picture award at VIFF, four Lithuanian Academy Award nominations, 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
• PBS American Portrait - series of five commissioned shorts featuring average American's experiences during the COVID-19 Quarantine.
• The Lost Novachord - short documentary commissioned by the Museum of Music Technology featuring the first ever filmed live performance of the only known fully restored Hammond Novachord.
• How Would You Feel? - Telly Award-winning juvenile justice reform documentary series exposing the harsh realities of America's foster care system.
B.A., Individualized Major, Film Production, Cinema Studies & English Literature - Rutgers University
Voting member, European Film Academy • Fluent in English & Lithuanian • Dual U.S. / E.U citizen
*Vincas is pronounced "Vin-Suss" and it is Lithuanian but I was born in New Jersey