Lance Weiler is an American filmmaker and writer from Pennsylvania, and the Director of the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia University School of the Arts.
17 Facts About Lance Weiler
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Lance Weiler first was known for The Last Broadcast, a found footage horror film which he co-wrote, co-produced, co-directed, and co-starred in with Stefan Avalos.
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Lance Weiler started in filmmaking by working as an assistant cameraman and camera operator on commercial shoots.
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In 2005, Lance Weiler wrote, directed, and co-produced his second film, Head Trauma, a thriller.
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Lance Weiler developed a cinema ARG around Head Trauma.
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At Sundance 2011, Lance Weiler released Pandemic 1.0, a transmedia experience playing out across film, mobile, web and a live experience.
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In 2019, Lance Weiler premiered Where There's Smoke at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Lance Weiler first started working with AI when he collaborated with Nicholas Fortugno and Rachel Eve Ginsberg on Frankenstein AI an adaption of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein that cast the monster as an artificial intelligence.
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Lance Weiler founded the content creator resource The Workbook Project and network, the discovery and distribution film festival From Here to Awesome, and a complimentary conference series, DIY Days.
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Lance Weiler wrote a column on digital media-related topics at the Blog Herald from 2006 to 2007.
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Lance Weiler's column entitled "Culture Hacker" deals with the intersection of tech and entertainment.
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Lance Weiler was selected for two World Economic Forum steering committees, one on the future of content creation and another on digital policy.
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Lance Weiler is part of the Cinema Research Institute think tank on the future of film at NYU and is a Professor of Practice at Columbia University School of the Arts where he teaches on the art, craft and business of storytelling in the 21st century.
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Lance Weiler's work has been featured in Time, Forbes, and Wired, and on television programs such as Entertainment Tonight and CNN.
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From 2014 to present, Lance Weiler has co-created immersive adaptions of the novels Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein.
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Lance Weiler has spoken at the Cannes, Berlin, and Sundance film festivals; and has consulted for large ad agencies, entertainment companies and corporations.
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Lance Weiler is a founding member of the Digital Storytelling Lab, established in 2013 at Columbia University.