Filmaker/Businessman Neil Trusso has led an amazing life and has done just about everything imaginable!
From humble beginnings on the tiny Pacific island of Guam, Neil would go on to spend his teenage years learning how to handle himself in the tough, inner-city neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California. An athlete from the begining, Neil loved sports and was a star player on the varsity football team for his local high school. This love for competition and physical fitness would follow him for the rest of his life. After graduating from high school, Neil felt he needed to find something challenging to do with his life... so he diecided to join the military.
From humble beginnings on the tiny Pacific island of Guam, Neil would go on to spend his teenage years learning how to handle himself in the tough, inner-city neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California. An athlete from the begining, Neil loved sports and was a star player on the varsity football team for his local high school. This love for competition and physical fitness would follow him for the rest of his life. After graduating from high school, Neil felt he needed to find something challenging to do with his life... so he diecided to join the military.
Seeking the ultimate test of courage, character and endurance, Neil joined the US Navy and volunteered for US Navy SEAL Training. After six months of the most grueling and difficult military training on the planet, Neil graduated from the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL Course (BUD/S class # 168) and went on to serve at SEAL Team 3 as an elite Navy SEAL. In fact, that's how Neil and Vernon met. in 1993, Vernon's Special Boat Detachment was assigned to Neil's SEAL Platoon to form a Naval Special Warfare Task Unit that deployed to the war-torn African Nation of Somalia (the same timeframe as depicted in the Ridley Scott movie, Black Hawk Down).
Accomplishing everything he had set out to do as a SEAL, Neil left the military in 1995 to undertake a new set of challenges and goals; to go to college, play college football and become a filmmaker. Neil ended up at Chapman University, in Orange County, California, where he played on the football team and later was a member of Chapman's WCLL Championship Lacrosse Team. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production from Chapman's prestigious Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, one of the leading films schools in the country. Neil served as Co-Executive Producer on 2009's gritty boxing drama "The Kid: Chamaco" starring Martin Sheen and Michael Madsen and in 2011 produced the western/trhiller "The Sorrow" starring Kirk Harris, John Savage and Michael Madsen.
Accomplishing everything he had set out to do as a SEAL, Neil left the military in 1995 to undertake a new set of challenges and goals; to go to college, play college football and become a filmmaker. Neil ended up at Chapman University, in Orange County, California, where he played on the football team and later was a member of Chapman's WCLL Championship Lacrosse Team. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production from Chapman's prestigious Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, one of the leading films schools in the country. Neil served as Co-Executive Producer on 2009's gritty boxing drama "The Kid: Chamaco" starring Martin Sheen and Michael Madsen and in 2011 produced the western/trhiller "The Sorrow" starring Kirk Harris, John Savage and Michael Madsen.
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