The Toronto native began producing short movies in the mid 1970s using Super 8mm cameras and the Elmo Editor. And it was upon seeing Richard Donner's Superman movie in 1978 that he crystallized his desire for film studies.
In the 1980s he was an active member of his secondary school's photography club, working with Nikon 35mm film cameras. In the 1990s he travelled the US, Italy and England developing his photography eye, and in the 2000s he made the jump to digital.
In Halifax, Reno participated in the 2006-07 AFCOOP one minute film scholarship with his entry Office NirvanÅ, and in 2007 produced his first indie short Transcending. He studied acting at the Neptune Theatre school in Halifax and is a 2007 graduate of their Pre-Professional Training Program.
In 2008 he launched Healing Light Films and produced his first indie comedy-horror feature ATTACK! of the Viper and Cobra. In 2013 he produced his first music video for indie artist Kerrissa MacLean. He has since produced music videos for Indigenous Rap artist Paul K.A.S.P. Sawan.
He is a 2012 Dalhousie University graduate with a BA in English and Film Studies. He has actively supported indie productions, especially the work of Dawn Fields, Oriane Pick, and Louisa Connolly-Burnham.
A former member of the Halifax AFCOOP and the NB Film Coop, he is a current member of British Columbia's Thompson Nicola Film Commission, where he works as a sound engineer, grip and production assistant. He is completing a Bachelor of Communications and Media Studies at Thompson Rivers University, with a minor in Visual Arts and Creative Writing.
His most recent feature-film work, Astronomy Walkers, will bring the distant location of Easter Island into Canadian indie filmmaking lore. If his features are selected to DGC-approved festivals, he will apply for membership to the Director's Guild of Canada.
He is also a service veteran for three different countries, having served in the Italian army and police; in the UK as a special constable; and in Canada as a logistics officer for the Canadian Forces.