KEN ARQUELIO, is a director/screenwriter/actor and producer. He most recently directed, wrote, and played a lead role opposite Pepe Serna in a short film called DISCO BEATS that was awarded BEST NARRATIVE SHORT FILM at the Arizona International Film Festival-2025. Other festival selections in the Spring/2025 are: Pasadena International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, USA Film Festival, and South Beach Film Festival.

Other recent acting credits are lead roles in UNCLE TONY, a web series and CLOWNSPIRACY, a political satire/horror film produced by Glitch TV that are currently in post-production and due for release in the Fall/2025.

After creating, writing and producing a television pilot called DESERT RATS, Ken was awarded producing fellowships by the PGA Create program and with NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers).

A theatrically trained actor, Ken originated the lead roles in stage productions of Infinite Black Suitcase by EM Lewis and Resurrection of the Ants by Mike Fontana. He also produced and starred in the West Coast debuts of The Dying Gaul and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot.

Ken is the founding member of VINCERO PICTURES, a production company based in Palm Springs, and is currently in development on LEADER OF THE BAND, a feature film starring Pepe Serna about three generations of Latino men who meet in the mountains of Idyllwild to bridge a fractured relationship caused by a traumatic event in the grandfather’s past.