I’ve had the pleasure of working with Lance Weiler for maybe two years now. I love how he thinks. I love how he takes that thought and transforms it into action. Process is more key to what he does, than virtually anyone else I have worked with. The journey is the destination. He is willing to walk without knowing where it all might be going. He is collaborative to the Nth the degree. His vision for cinema truly knows no limits.
Wired Magazine singled him out this summer as one of the fathers of transmedia. BusinessWeek credited him with changing cinema alongside Thomas Edison, The Warner Bros., and James Cameron. Between his features, The Workbook Project, & DIY Days, the man is profoundly generative.
If you were in Sundance this past week (and even if you weren’t), you probably witnessed how he infected Park City with a Pandemic. Others certainly did. Jamie Stuart shot this beautiful video for Filmmaker Magazine on Lance’s Pandemic activities. FearNet has acquired his short which was screening at the fest. For those that like to hold their stories in their hand, you can follow it on Twitter here. AND of course there is a website. Granted, I am producing the feature, but believe me when I tell you it is thrilling, horrifying, beautiful, and groundbreaking; it’s a shame you have to wait until I raise the money to see it.
Christine Vachon and I also got to speak to Lance for KillerHope on Hulu.
Lance created this short as a style template for collaborators throughout the world to help capture the outbreak in their local territories. Check it out and get filming!
