He always wanted to be a filmmaker because of his fascination with cinema. But just like in a movie, his passion for the visual medium took a funny twist from the original plot.

A Communication Arts graduate from De La Salle University Manila, Neil Burdeos began his professional career in video production when he entered ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation in 1997. He started as Copywriter for The Filipino Channel (TFC), and after a few months promoted as Junior Producer. He directed and edited promo plugs, movie trailers, and television commercials of TFC products.

In 1999, he was hired by Vintage TV as Segment Producer and TV Director for the PBA games live coverage. There he gained the solid technical skills in directing live broadcast using five to six cameras, and the mental toughness in handling tension-filled situations.

On February 2001, he established Director's Cut in the garage of his own home in Bacoor, Cavite. He fondly called his office Editing Suite 1, and up to this day, remained as the central production headquarters of the company. Back then he was a one-man production team, with his services limited only to VCD transfers and editing student projects. The long post production hours were excruciating but gratifying at the same time especially when many of those student videos won numerous awards.

His foray into the wedding industry was never part of his plan. He intended to use Director's Cut as a platform in making digital movies before trying his luck in mainstream cinema.

But in December of that same year, his then soon-to-wed highschool friend hired him to cover the event. Without any experience in wedding coverage, he conceptualized an idea that gave a fresh look to the wedding video - by incorporating the principles of cinema and infusing a music-video style of editing. It was his baptism of fire and he became one of the pioneers who set the standards in creative event videography.

"No more boring, poorly-shot, and badly-edited videos from now on!", he declared.

But the best demonstration of his skill and dedication as a videographer came on December 8, 2003 when he single-handedly shot the wedding of Julius Babao and Christine Bersola; no thanks to his apprentice who got sick that day. It was a great challenge because in some instances, he managed to shoot multiple angles of a single scene as if there was a multiple camera setup. When in fact, it was just one small videocam held by one hungry videographer who even stayed with the couple until one in the morning without eating anything except mint candy. The result was an impressive and heartwarming video which still draws attention from the crowds up to this day.

His philosophy: "The principles of photography and videography are intertwined. If I can encapsulate a single frame of priceless moment, imagine what I can express with 30 frames of moving pictures."