Tony F. Vainuku is a Polynesian American, director, and filmmaker. He graduated from Westminster College with a BS in marketing/film. In 2017, Tony became an Emmy Award-winning director for his feature-length documentary "In Football We Trust."
The Polynesian-American filmmaker also directed the two-part finale for Netflix’s Untold documentary series executive produced by the Way Brothers. The finale chronicles the catfishing hoax that led to Heisman trophy finalist Manti Te’o’s fall from stardom.
Vainuku is also directing the docuseries American Gladiators with Campfire Films, and will helm and showrun a docuseries for Scott Budnick’s One Community.
In addition, he is developing a narrative series based on the life of Junior Seau. The life of the Samoan NFL star from Oceanside, California came to a sudden and tragic ending in 2012 after a long battle with the traumatic brain disease CTE, a major crisis sweeping the NFL.
Vainuku continues to be represented by UTA on the agency side and Community Films for commercials.
In 2020, former WME Partner Phillip Sun and MACRO founder and CEO Charles D. King launched M88 as an indie representation firm, led by Sun and partners Oronde Garrett and Gaby Mena
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