Lance Oppenheim


Lance Oppenheim is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and producer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is known for blending cinematic genres to explore the lives of people who create homes in unconventional spaces and places. His debut feature Some Kind of Heaven was an Official Selection at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The film was produced by Darren Aronofsky and The New York Times He is one of the youngest contributors to The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Life

Oppenheim was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and grew up in Southwest Ranches, Florida.

Career

While in high-school, Oppenheim directed several short documentaries, one of which was distributed by PBS. He studied filmmaking in the Visual and Environmental Studies department at Harvard University and graduated in 2019.
At Harvard, he lived in Adams House and directed three acclaimed short documentaries that were distributed by The New York Times Op-Docs. His short The Happiest Guy in the World premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. Oppenheim was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2019.
In his senior year at college, Oppenheim began directing his debut feature Some Kind of Heaven, a documentary exploring life inside The Villages, Florida, as part of his senior thesis. The film premiered a year later at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam to critical acclaim.

Filmography