Lance Kramer Filmmaker

Lance Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures. Lance produced Holding Liat (Berlinale Documentary Award Winner 2025); The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); City of Trees (Full Frame, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning documentary series The Messy Truth. Lance served as an Advisor to the 2025 Sundance Documentary Film Program Producers Lab; was a fellow in the 2018 Sundance Creative Producers Summit, the 2017 Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship, and was named to the DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list in 2021. In 2014, Lance received the DC Mayor’s Arts Award, the highest honor given to working artists in the city. Lance served two terms as Board Member of Docs in Progress, is a board member of the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF), and has been a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) since 2016.