Vincent Pereira


Vincent Pereira is an American independent filmmaker, known for his work with Kevin Smith and View Askew. He is regarded as the unofficial "View Askew Historian".

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 convenience 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 went to see independent films in New York City. 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 worked on Kevin's later films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Other films

In 1997, Smith financed three films under the View Askew label, Vulgar, Big Helium Dog and A Better Place. 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. A DVD was released in 2001.