Brandon Kramer

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About Brandon Kramer

Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures, telling personal stories about complex social issues. Director of HOLDING LIAT (Berlinale Award for Best Documentary, 2025)- After Liat Beinin Atzili is kidnapped on October 7th, her Israeli-American family faces their own conflicting perspectives to fight for her release and the future of the places they call home. Director of THE FIRST STEP (Tribeca Film Festival, 2021)- In a divided America, progressive activist and political commentator Van Jones controversially works across party lines on landmark criminal justice reform and a more humane response to the addiction crisis. Awarded Best Documentary Feature Award at the Boston GlobeDocs and Oxford Film Festivals. Director of the Webby Award-winning documentary series THE MESSY TRUTH (CNN, 2016) Director of CITY OF TREES (Netflix, PBS, 2016)- What sounds like a simple goal — putting people back to work by planting trees — becomes complicated by community tensions and a fast-approaching deadline before the grant money runs out. Brandon is a Film Independent Fellow, a DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Fellow, a regular collaborator with Kartemquin Films in Chicago, and has served as a media teaching artist for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Brandon holds a bachelor’s degree in film and cultural anthropology from Boston University.