Director's Works
Amazon Music, On the Go Lance Oppenheim
Lance Oppenheim is an acclaimed director renowned for crafting candy-coloured documentaries that blend nonfiction storytelling with heightened, cinematic formalism. His films are layered with humanity, humor, and flourishes of the surreal. Inspired by the larger-than-life stories that unfolded around him in his native South Florida, Oppenheim has been making films since he was in his teens. While in college, he became the youngest active contributor to The New York Times Op-Docs and received six Vimeo Staff Picks. He is a former Sundance Ignite Fellow, has been featured as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” and was named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in 2022. His first feature, ”Some Kind of Heaven,” premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures and Hulu in 2021 to critical acclaim. The film was produced by Darren Aronofsky & The New York Times, one of the paper’s first feature-length film productions. Oppenheim has worked with brand clients including Google, EOS, Yahoo, Apple & Tribeca, VRBO, Blizzard, Cox, and Chinet. Oppenheim’s latest documentary feature with FX/Hulu and The New York Times, Spermworld, is set in the new wild west of baby making – online forums where sperm donors connect with hopeful parents. His recent collaboration with HBO and Elara Pictures, Ren Faire, premiered at SXSW in 2024. A three-part series, it’s a fantastic succession tale of Shakespearean proportions which unfolds at the Texas Renaissance Festival. He is currently developing fiction projects with Natalie Portman, Elizabeth Olsen, Ari Aster, and Darren Aronofsky.