Q&A with director Brandon Kramer and producer Lance Kramer moderated by film curator David Schwartz

Sunday, Jan. 11 2026, 1:00

• Brandon Kramer is a Washington, DC based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures with his brother Lance. Brandon directed The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); City of Trees (Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning independent documentary series The Messy Truth (CNN). Brandon is a Film Independent Fellow, a DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Fellow, a regular collaborator with Kartemquin Films in Chicago, and has served as a media teaching artist for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Brandon holds a bachelor’s degree in film and cultural anthropology from Boston University.
• Lance Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures. Lance produced The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); City of Trees (Full Frame, PBS, Netflix) and the Webby Award-winning series The Messy Truth. Lance is a Film Independent Fellow and has been selected to participate in the Film Independent Fast Track program, Sundance Creative Producers Summit, Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship cohort, was named to the DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list, and received the DC Mayor’s Arts Award, the highest honor given to working artists in the Nation’s Capital. Lance is a former Board Member of Docs in Progress, a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, and currently serves on the board of the Foundation for the Augmentation of African Americans in Film (FAAAF).
• David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is curator-at-large for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is on the Board of Directors for The Film-makers’ Cooperative.

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