Lance Weiler

• The Last Broadcast (1998, producer, co-writer, actor, co-director) • Head Trauma (2006, producer, co-writer, director) • RADAR - 42 episodes (2009 to 2011, co-creator, producer) • Collapsus: The Energy Risk Conspiracy (2010 co-writer and narrative designer) • Pandemic 1.0 (2011, co-creator, co-writer, director and experience designer) • Robot Heart Stories (2011, 2012 - creator and experience designer) • Bear 71 (2012 - co-created installation and social narrative designer) • Wish for the Future (2012 - creator and experience designer) • Body Mind Change (2013–2017 - creative director and experience designer) • My Sky is Falling (2013–present - executive producer) • Lyka's Adventure (2013–2016 - creator and experience designer) • Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things (2014–present - co-creator, creative director and experience designer) • Frankenstein AI (2017–present co-creator, creative director and experience designer) • (de)escalation room (2017–present co-creator, creative director and experience designer) • Where There's Smoke (2018–present creator, experience designer) • The Raven (2019 co-creator, co-writer and director) • From the Futures (2020–present co-creator, creative director and experience designer) • Project Immerse (2020–present co-creator, creative director and experience designer) • Blockchain Fairy Tales (2021–present co-creator, creative director and experience designer)

Weiler's work has been featured in Time, Forbes, and Wired, and on television programs such as Entertainment Tonight and CNN. His first feature, The Last Broadcast, is distributed in more than 20 countries. It is the first all-digital release of a motion picture to theaters nationwide; it also has been aired on HBO and IFC. To date, The Last Broadcast, a self-distributed effort, has grossed 5 million dollars worldwide via self-distribution. In the fall of 2013, Weiler created an immersive storytelling/play experience entitled Body/Mind/Change, which launched at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto at its film festival. The project was a collaboration with David Cronenberg, the Toronto International Film Festival, and Canadian Film Centre media lab. Body/Mind/Change was scheduled to travel to museums around world over the following four years. Designed to capture players' and viewers' data within the experience, the project is the first of its kind. In an interview with Fast Company, Weiler said, "It plays into the whole data movement and our obsession with it and the narcissistic qualities of it. As you’re playing the experience, we're collecting certain data points, and in the museum space we're 3-D printing PODs based on your emotional intelligence. Data is being generated about our lives all the time, so I thought it would be fun to play with that idea of quantified self but have it manifest in something real". From 2014 to present, Weiler has co-created immersive adaptions of the novels Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein. These works combine the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence in an effort to augment creativity and encourage collaborative storytelling. Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things has more than 2,500 collaborators from 60 countries. To date, more than 150 self-organized events related to these subjects have been staged around the world. Lance started prototyping a new immersive storytelling experience that mixes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with AI and Machine Learning. In 2018, Frankenstein AI premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontier Section becoming one of the first artificial intelligence projects to ever show at the festival. In addition to making feature films, Weiler directs commercials and music videos. He often lectures at universities and film societies about the changing landscape of content creation and distribution. He has spoken at the Cannes, Berlin, and Sundance film festivals; and has consulted for large ad agencies, entertainment companies and corporations. Weiler is a founding member of the Digital Storytelling Lab, established in 2013 at Columbia University. It is designed to explore the current and future landscape of storytelling.