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Godfrey’s Flower
Over the last year or so I’ve started providing Story Architecture and Experience Design services to brands, agencies and studios. I’ve had the pleasure of working on some amazing projects. One such project launched this past week at the Sundance Film Festival. Together with the Coca Cola company, McCann-Erickson and Mirada Studios, I helped to ...
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Bear71 @ Sundance
Bear71 is an amazing project from Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison. Produced by the NFB, the project premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The response to the project has been amazing with coverage from numerous outlets such as PSFK, the Huffington Post and The Next Web. Bear71 is a heartbreaking tale of a grizzly bear ...
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Story R&D – a look at building stories for 21c
I made the following presentation in London this past fall. From the Power to the Pixel program “Lance shares his first hand experience in what it takes to build original storyworlds. From Pandemic 1.0 which invaded the Sundance Film Festival this year, to his new participatory storytelling trilogy, Reboot Stories, which kicked off this year ...
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Bears, Robots and travel
I’m excited to be part of the creative team working on Bear 71, a wonderful project from Leanne Allison & Jeremy Mendes. I’m co-creating the installation and doing experience design in conjunction with the National Film Board of Canada. Bear 71 unfolds at Sundance as an official selection of New Frontier this coming January. ...
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Robot <3 Stories
This fall I’ll be releasing an exciting new participatory storytelling project focused on experiential education, storytelling and creative collaboration. A robot has crash landed in Montreal and now must make her way to LA in order to find her space craft and return home. Two third grade classes in underprivileged neighborhoods, one in Montreal (French ...
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Exciting News
A number of exciting things are in the works… This fall I’ll be teaching a graduate course at Columbia University. The course is tied to a book that I’m releasing entitled “Building Storyworlds – the art and craft of storytelling in 21C.” I’m looking forward to discussing the present and future of the media industry. ...
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Collapsus Emmy Nomination
My writing partner Chuck Wendig and I wrote and provided narrative design for Collapsus: The Energy Risk Conspiracy last year. This past week Collapsus received an International Emmy® nomination in the Digital Program Fiction category. Big congrats to Tommy Pallotta (director) and the whole Submarine Channel team.
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Pandemic 1.0
“A mysterious virus begins to affect the adults in a small rural town, and the youth soon find themselves cut off from civilization, fighting for their lives. How fast is the virus spreading? It is confirmed—the virus has hit Park City. Can you survive? Pandemic 1.0, a transmedia storytelling experience, unites film, mobile and online ...
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Pandemic at Sundance
In addition to Pandemic 1.0 appearing in the Frontier Section of the Sundance Film Festival the short that I co-wrote and directed called Pandemic 41.410806, -75.654259 will be one of 44 US shorts in the narrative section. The first in a series of shorts that will be shot in London, Berlin, Paris, Rome and Barcelona ...
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Headed to Sundance
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be headed to the Sundance Film Festival with a new project entitled Pandemic 1.0 This marks the first step in a rolling release of a new storyworld that I’ve been building. It is part of what I’ve been calling a storytelling R&D (research and development) process. Pandemic 1.0 Lance ...
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New Project – Collapsus
Earlier this summer my writing partner Chuck Wendig and I were approached by SubmarineChannel and producer / director Tommy Pallotta (A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life) to design and write a narrative for a transmedia experience entitled Collapsus: The Energy Risk Conspiracy. Collapsus extends a recent VPRO doc entitled Energy Risk by taking elements found ...
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Rebooting the Doc Experience
CULTURE HACKER – FALL 2010 FILMMAKER MAG by Lance Weiler – The year is 2012 and the world is on the brink of collapse.Rolling blackouts, depleted resources, civil unrest, assassinations and political dissension have thrown the world into a state of chaos. We follow the adventures of a group of young people as they ...