Lance Kramer

Lance is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures. Lance produced City of Trees (Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, national broadcast on PBS' America Reframed, Netflix) and the Webby Award-winning independent documentary series The Messy Truth. Lance was invited to attend the Sundance Creative Producers Summit in 2018 and was selected to the 2017 Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship cohort. Lance was awarded an Individual Arts Fellow by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities three times between 2014-2020, and in 2014, Lance received the prestigious DC Mayor's Arts Award, the highest honor bestowed upon working artists in the city. Lance has served two terms as Board Member of Docs in Progress, and has been an active member of the Documentary Producers Alliance since 2016, where he served as a member of the drafting committee for the new Guidelines for the Documentary Waterfall. Lance holds a bachelor's degree in history and film from Dartmouth College.