Lance Kramer

Producer, Meridian Hill Pictures

Meridian Hill Pictures

In a divided America, Van Jones attempts to pass a landmark criminal justice bill - and finds himself under fire from all sides.

The First Step

Hearing about people's hopes and fears. Learning how to argue again. Complicating everyone's worldview. Understanding how people feel and challenging assumptions. This is not gotcha journalism. This is brutal honesty.

The Messy Truth with Van Jones

During the recession, City of Trees follows three trainees and the directors of a stimulus-funded green job training program designed to put unemployed people back to work by caring for parks in DC.

City of Trees

Hard Earned, a six-part documentary series for Al Jazeera America, follows five families around the country to find out what it takes to get by on 8, 10, or even 17 dollars an hour.

Hard Earned

Found not guilty by reason of insanity, Lew, Calvin, Jimmy, and Kevin reveal their stories and share what it's like to have spent a collective 160 years in one of the nation's oldest mental institutions.

Voices from Within

A group of teenagers board a bus for West Virginia, leaving the streets of Washington, DC to participate in an ambitious peace education program. For the first time in their lives Mark, Asha, Martha, and Corey play in mountain streams, sing under the stars, and confront the entrenched abuse, violence and neglect cycles of their past.