Kramer Brothers Film Untitled

Brandon 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, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning documentary series The Messy Truth. Brandon won Best Director at the 2016 Chesapeake Film Festival and Indie Capital Awards, and is a four-time recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Individual Artist Fellowship. Brandon has served as a staff teaching Artist in Documentary Film for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and has directed dozens of commissioned documentaries for institutions including the U.S. Institute of Peace, AARP Foundation and National Parks Service. Brandon holds a bachelor’s degree in film and cultural anthropology from Boston University.

Yoni Brook is a Peabody Award winning filmmaker whose films have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, as well as the New York and Toronto Film Festivals. Credits include co-creating the docuseries Philly D.A. (called “the second coming of The Wire in docuseries form” by New York Magazine), PBS Independent Lens/Topic, Peabody Award Winner, duPont-Columbia Award Winner, Gotham Award Winner, Menashe (Producer/DP, A24, Film Independent Spirit Nominee), Valley of Saints (DP, Film Independent Spirit Nominee, Sundance World Dramatic Audience Award Winner), Bronx Princess (PBS POV), The Calling (PBS Independent Lens), and A Son’s Sacrifice (Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Short, IDA’s Best Documentary Short, PBS Independent Lens). Brook is an alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He teaches in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College.

Lance is a DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures with his brother Brandon. Lance produced The First Step (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); City of Trees (Full Frame, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning documentary series The Messy Truth. Lance was selected to participate in the 2018 Sundance Creative Producers Summit, the 2017 Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship, and was named to the DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list in 2021. Lance was awarded four Individual Arts Fellowships by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities between 2014 – 2022. In 2014, Lance received the DC Mayor’s Arts Award, the highest honor given to working artists in the city. Lance served two terms as Board Member of Docs in Progress, is a board member of the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF), and has been an active member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) since 2016. Lance holds a bachelor’s degree in history and film from Dartmouth College.