VINCAS SRUOGINIS
Director & Editor | Documentary & Brand Video | Faktion Films
me@vincas.tv • New York Metro Area • www.vincas.tv • youtube.com/@FAKTIONFILMS
SUMMARY
Director and editor with 25 years developing and executing video content from concept to final delivery — directing talent, building storyboards and treatments, and shooting, cutting, and finishing work end to end. Founder of Faktion Films, serving as field director on every project for clients including Google, IBM, The Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, Merck, GSK, Amgen, and Samsung. Documentary work spans a New York Times-reviewed feature to self-shot short-form series, with a track record of content that found real audiences and national press coverage. Early, practical adopter of AI production tools used in finished, client-approved work.
CORE SKILLS
Directing Talent • Field & Studio Production • Documentary Storytelling • Storyboards & Treatments • Adobe
Premiere Pro • Adobe After Effects • Color Grading • Sound Design & Mixing • Motion Graphics • Archival
Research • AI-Augmented Workflows • Client & Agency Relations
EXPERIENCE
Founder, Director & Editor — Faktion Films (formerly Drive Eleven), 2007–Present
New York Metro Area • faktion.tv
• Act as field director across the full project slate — developing creative treatments and storyboards, directing on-camera talent, and owning execution from pre-production through final delivery.
• Own the complete post-production process — ingest, edit, sound, color, motion graphics, and delivery —
coordinating colorists, animators, and mixers to hold consistent creative and brand standards.
• Built and grew a YouTube channel (@FAKTIONFILMS) as an ongoing digital content platform, producing episodic and series-style short-form video.
• Directed Priscilla, a longboarding short for a NJ skate shop that became the studio's most-watched video and
earned press coverage from Gothamist.
• Early, hands-on adopter of AI production tools — Google Veo, Runway, Descript, Topaz Video AI — used in
finished, client-approved work.
Adjunct Faculty, Documentary Editing — CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, 2021–2025
New York, NY
Taught documentary editing to working journalists and emerging editors, covering narrative structure and post-production craft.
Staff Editor — Go Robot, 2001–2007
New York, NY
• Staff editor at one of the top five commercial edit houses of the era, cutting national broadcast campaigns for major agencies including BBDO, Young & Rubicam, McCann, and Ogilvy — work included IBM, Sprite, and American Express.
SELECTED WORK
• The Invisible Front — feature documentary; New York Times-reviewed; four Lithuanian Academy Award
nominations; 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
• The Dog Eat Dog Movie — feature documentary in production on the pioneering NJ rap-metal band, featuring DJ Plash, the first DJ to perform at an Olympic breaking battle (Paris 2024).
• The Lost Novachord — 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? / Debt Free Justice — Telly Award-winning juvenile justice reform documentary series exposing the harsh realities of America's foster care system.
• PBS American Portrait — five commissioned shorts featuring average American's experiences of the COVID-19 Quarantine.
EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS
B.A., English Literature, Cinema Studies & Film Production — Rutgers University
Voting member, European Film Academy • Fluent in English and Lithuanian • Dual U.S./EU citizen