Lauren Vance

Our pilot took place in Egypt. I filmed and directed a pilot there for a new series on travelers pushing themselves to experience extraordinary adventurers. From walking inside a pyramid to hot air balloons and eating with families in a Nubian Village. I conducted interviews, plus verite style filming.

Field directing and filming for a doc program in Cairo, Egypt.

Interviewing family members and law enforcement for new true crime series. In addition, directed broll in field for scenes and look of episode based on Executive Prod and Supervising Prod’s shooting script.

Filmmaker on an upcoming documentary film short relating to the youth movement and gun control. Crafted the look of my two characters stories, following characters and B camera on all shoots.

Field produced, conducted interviews, filmed and followed main subject and his struggle with opioid epidemic addiction in sensitive environments. My time was spent in America's largest open drug markets and in communities impacted by heroin addiction.

Produced video interview feature with Katie Couric on the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s brutal attack and murder for the TIME Magazine special report Beyond Hate.

Filmed, produced and documented interview subject - sensitive subject matter.

Field producer for DC leg of project with global artist JR and TIME Magazine. Identified individuals impacted by gun violence for interviews & conducted interviews. http://time.com/longform/guns-america/

1 of 2 main Field Producers for entire 13 episode series

Director for Film Series. https://vimeo.com/296476568

•Write and conduct character/story participants’ interviews and direct b-roll and interaction in the field. •Work closely with executive producer and story producer to develop character story arcs and complementary b-roll. •Write daily hot sheets detailing the day's filming and story points.

•Conduct character/story participants’ interviews. •Direct b-roll in the field. •Work closely with story producer to develop character story arcs and visual elements in the field. •Write daily hot sheets detailing the day's filming and story points.

Director and filmmaker for a short film featuring actor Gary Oldman & artist Ian Ruhter in Slab City. In addition to creating the concept, title of film and following Oldman and Ruhter's experience making 19th century ambrotypes in this environment I identified interviewed and documented the secondary characters in Slab City.

•Conduct character/story participants’ interviews. •Direct b-roll in the field. •Work closely with executive producer and story producer to develop character story arcs and visual elements in the field. •Write daily hot sheets detailing the day's filming and story points.

•Write and conduct character/story participants’ interviews. • Direct b-roll and character interaction in the field. •Work closely with executive producer and story producer to develop character story arcs. •Write daily hot sheets detailing the day's filming and story points. •Identify stories, characters, locations.

Field produced episode 104 for Sirens Media. Gathered interview sound from multiple subjects, commercial teases, and directed and developed extensive visual elements with in field crew.

Field produced episode 107b for Sirens Media. Gathered interview sound, commercial teases, and visual elements with crew.

I field produced four episodes for Season 5 of Nightmare Next Door, a True Crime series on Investigation Discovery. My duties include interviewing and visually capturing the essence of the town with our Director of Photography. In addition, my duties include securing in-field interviews, etc..

Post-production producer and writer of Yosemite. Yosemite is about what happened when wet plate collodion photographic artist Ian Ruhter lost the ability to believe in his own dreams and had to seek the answers from an unlikely source. Yosemite: https://vimeo.com/92688138

I spent extended periods of time during times of US tragedy working on identifying exclusive in-depth human interest and investigative stories - produced pieces from start to finish. Select credits: Sandy Hook Shooting (Hero Teacher Exclusive), Boston Marathon Bombings (Sisters Tragedy Exclusive), Williston Oil Boom (2012) to name a few. EDIT

Produced 4 -16 minute segments for special interest Primetime network documentary specials (broadcast and streaming), weekly news programs, daily news, and digital verticals.