Vincent Lucassen was born and grew up in the Netherlands. He studied Economics and Sociology at the University of Wageningen. Until 1992 he was lecturer at Studium Generale, University of Wageningen and worked as lobbyist at the European Parliament in Brussels. In 1993 he finished the Media Academy in Hilversum and moved to Vienna in 1994, where he started to work in the film industry.

In 1999 he founded WILDart FILM and produces documentaries for cinema and for TV. In 2000 he co-founded dok.at, the association of Austrian documentary filmmakers. In 2003 he founded DocuZone Austria, as part of CinemaNet Europe – the first European Network for the digital distribution of documentary films into specially equipped arthouse cinemas. (MEDIA Pilot Project). In 2006 together with EU-XXL he organised an Eastern European Tour on digital cinema. In close cooperation with the german Onlinefilm.org he is now coordinating an European platform for internet downloads of documentary films. He is a documentary film producer and co-founder of Docu Zone Austria. He lives and works in Vienna.