Lance McDaniel
Executive Director, deadCENTER Film Festival
Executive Director Lance McDaniel joined deadCENTER this year after volunteering for five years in programming, event planning, marketing and education. As an independent filmmaker, Lance screened three films at deadCENTER: a narrative short, narrative feature and documentary feature, Widowbago, which won Best Oklahoma film in 2007. Lance has worked on nine feature films in Oklahoma as a writer, director, producer and 1st Assistant Director, including 5 movies produced by Oklahoma Oscar winner Gray Frederickson, Heaven’s Rain, the Brooks Douglass story, and Pearl, the first film by the Chickasaw Nation. In Los Angeles, Lance worked as Producer's Assistant for Oscar winner Al Ruddy on Million Dollar Baby and a beach volleyball movie starring Burt Reynolds. Prior to working in film, Lance spent 15 years as VP of Creative for an Internet Consulting Company in London, New York and San Francisco. He provided strategic direction, implementation and management of websites for Levi’s, Starbucks, Star Wars, McDonalds, Harley Davidson, British Airways, Virgin Airlines and Walt Disney World.
Executive Director, deadCENTER Film Festival
Executive Director Lance McDaniel joined deadCENTER this year after volunteering for five years in programming, event planning, marketing and education. As an independent filmmaker, Lance screened three films at deadCENTER: a narrative short, narrative feature and documentary feature, Widowbago, which won Best Oklahoma film in 2007. Lance has worked on nine feature films in Oklahoma as a writer, director, producer and 1st Assistant Director, including 5 movies produced by Oklahoma Oscar winner Gray Frederickson, Heaven’s Rain, the Brooks Douglass story, and Pearl, the first film by the Chickasaw Nation. In Los Angeles, Lance worked as Producer's Assistant for Oscar winner Al Ruddy on Million Dollar Baby and a beach volleyball movie starring Burt Reynolds. Prior to working in film, Lance spent 15 years as VP of Creative for an Internet Consulting Company in London, New York and San Francisco. He provided strategic direction, implementation and management of websites for Levi’s, Starbucks, Star Wars, McDonalds, Harley Davidson, British Airways, Virgin Airlines and Walt Disney World.
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Lance will be a guest speaker in our class on Monday, November 22. He will talk about short films and storytelling, and then you will have an opportunity to talk to him about production jobs in Oklahoma through the blog.
Can't wait to hear Lance speak. He has great things to say!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for allowing me to speak with your classes. You run a great program at Moore Norman Tech. And, based on the insightful questions and comments, your students will be great attributes to the Oklahoma film community.
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