Vicente Franco was a 2003 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and Emmy nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for "Daughter from Danang," winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2002 Grand Jury Prize. He won the Silver Apple/Latin American Studies Association for "Cuba Va: the Challenge of the Next Generation." In addition to directing, he is an accomplished cinematographer of documentaries, drama, news and public affairs who won a Peabody for coverage of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. His credits include the Academy Award nominated films "Freedom on My Mind" (2004), and "The Most Dangerous Man in America" (2010), POV specials "Discovering Dominga" and "Thirst," and the PBS series "Latin Music USA," "In Search of Law and Order" and "Making Peace." He also shot "Botany of Desire," "The Judge and the General," "Orozco Man of Fire," "Archaeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi," "The Fight in the Fields," "The Good War" as well as "The Storm that Swept Mexico."

Franco’s latest production was "Summer of Love," for the PBS/American Experience series, about the SF Haight Ashbury hippie community in 1967.