JE M’APPELLE ALVIE BALICOCO
An autofiction feature film about a Filipino-American immigrant in his 50s struggling in Paris who takes his millennial French buddy on a road trip across America that becomes an odyssey to come clean with his entire past in order to realize the man he is finally becoming.
WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PRODUCED BY VINCE DUQUé
SELECTED WORK
JE M’APPELLE ALVIE BALICOCO
An autofiction feature film about a Filipino-American immigrant in his 50s struggling in Paris who takes his millennial French buddy on a road trip across America to see U2 at the Sphere, a trip that becomes an odyssey through his entire past as he comes clean about the man he is finally becoming.
TWO+ DECADES IN FILM AND TELEVISION
Before directing his own work, Vince spent more than two decades working across studio film and television, bringing deep production experience to an independent, improvisational directing approach shaped by guerrilla filmmaking and the ability to carry ambitious work from concept through completion.
DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA & ABC-Disney Directing Programs
Advanced training in narrative structure, visual storytelling, and production management through the Directors Guild of America & ABC-Disney programs.
Studio Credits
Extensive experience in feature and TV production, across major all L.A. based studios and streamers.
International
Global availability with a focus on French and Irish co-production relationships, as well as United States industry opportunities.
CURRENTLY
Deep in post-production on Je m’appelle Alvie Balicoco and building its international finishing, producing, and festival team.
Actively seeking opportunities directing, writing, producing, and story development across film, television, documentary, autofiction, and emerging narrative formats.
Additionally, Vince seeks opportunities to work as actor with bold directors seeking a Filipino-American character who can also speak French and knows his way around L.A., Paris and Dublin.
Evolving my film community in Ireland and France and re-entering the old Hollywood airspace.
ABOUT VINCE
Vince Duqué was born in New York to Filipino immigrant parents and has spent his adult life moving between institutions, industries, countries, and identities. He attended West Point to learn about leadership while competing on their collegiate gymnastics team, built a long career in film and television, primarily as an assistant director, and later left Los Angeles for Paris. There, he began what he calls a self-guided PhD in cinema and art—a kind of finishing school for shaping his storytelling voice. Currently, he is in post on his first feature film, Je m'appelle Alvie Balicoco and also building a film team focused on making original films with a looser, more intimate, and author-driven French New Wave rule breaking appraoch to filmmaking.
As an actor, Vince has studied with Jocelyn Jones, improvisation at UCB and movement training at the Joan Scheckel Filmmaking Labs.
INTERNATIONAL
Based in Paris, working across Europe, especially Ireland, and Los Angeles
PROFESSIONAL
More than two-plus decades of experience in American studio film & TV production.
EDUCATION
Directors Guild Training Program, ABC-Disney Directing Program, Upright Citizens Brigade, Joan Scheckel Filmmakling Labs, United States Military Academy at West Point.
DIRECTING, PRODUCING, ACTING, AND CREATIVE ENQUIRIES
Paris, France / Dublin, Ireland / Los Angeles, USA
Available internationally for directing, writing, producing, acting and development opportunities.
* I do not accept unsolicted materials (treatments, pitches, scripts, decks)