Lance Cain is a primetime Emmy award winning editor, filmmaker and photographer with almost twenty years of experience. He started his career in advertising, working with companies such as Young and Rubicam and Saatchi and Saatchi. Eventually he moved into television and films.
His latest directorial project, The Invisible Ones, tells the story of two schools on the top of Mount Sarazin in Haiti, celebrating with a few artist from Brooklyn a of day art and music. His art documentary film A Few Days After debuted at the 2011 Ghost Shadows art exhibition at Dada Post Gallery in Berlin, Germany. The title refers to the shadows of the World Trade Center, which fell across the Tribeca neighborhood where Lance and six other artists lived and worked prior and during that tragic day. His film and installation explores his neighborhood at ground zero just days after the 9/11 attacks.
Lance began his career as a commercial editor at Version-2 Editorial and then as a creative director with Third Element Productions and JP Studios. During this period he produced and directed dozens of commercial spots and music videos for Capital, Select and Tommy Boy Records. In the early 2000s Cain produced online digital content, joining forces with Time Inc. Studios, where he produced and edited doc webisodes for L’Oreal, Essence Magazine and WebMD. He also continued acting as a creative director for an array of companies that included; Dogmatic Productions, TAG Creative, The Sundance Channel and MH3 Productions.
In 2005, Cain won a Emmy for Outstanding Editing in a Comedy, Music or Miniseries for the A&E documentary Paul McCartney In Red Square. In 2008 Cain co-created and directed the experimental web series New York Verité, a mélange of downtown theater, cinema verite and reality TV, digitally filmed before a live studio audience.
In 2010 Cain edited the romantic feature film, ”My Last Day Without You” starring Nicole Beharie and Ken Duken and directed by Stefen Schafer for Circala Filmworks. Cain’s first major photo exhibition “The Corner Of Haarlemmerstraat and Saint Germain Blvd” (2009) opened at the Soho Creative Gallery and exhibited at Axis Gallery in New York City. The show featured a collection of photos juxtaposing images of Parisian cafés with Amsterdam coffee-shops. His most recent photo exhibit is part of his series The Last days Of Tribeca. The Knitting Factory was the last live music venue to close in Tribeca and Cain captures the last hip hop night, featuring musical artists Talib Kwali and Quest Love.
In 2011, after a decade of operating in Tribeca NY, Cain moved his digital production company New Renaissance Productions, specializing in narrative, documentary and experimental digital filmmaking, to the revitalized art scene of New York City’s Harlem. Cain is presently in pre-production for his new documentary Le Masion Baldwin, a film on acclaimed writer James Baldwin’s last seventeen years of his life in Saint Paul de Vence, France.
Lance continues to produce and direct his independent films while freelancing in television as an editor and story-producer for companies like Vice and A&E. He’s a adjunct professor and thesis advisor at his alma mater, The School of Visual Arts in New York City.
