Brandon Kramer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and artistic director/co-founder of the DC-based production company Meridian Hill Pictures. he is the director of the feature documentary City of Trees, which played at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, was nationally broadcast on PBS’ America Reframed and is now streaming on Netflix and iTunes. He directed the Webby Award-winning documentary series The Messy Truth with Van Jones, released on Van Jones’ Facebook page and CNN.com just before the 2016 election to over 4 million viewers. He is the winner of the Best Director award at the 2016 Chesapeake Film Festival and Indie Capital Awards, received the Audience Choice Award at the 2015 American Conservation Film Festival and was a 2015 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Individual Arts Fellow. Since 2010, he has directed and produced over 30 short documentaries commissioned by government agencies and nonprofits including the AARP Foundation, the US Institute of Peace and the International Baccalaureate. Before starting Meridian Hill Pictures, he served as a staff teaching artist for the John F. Kennedy Center’s national media education program. Kramer holds a bachelor’s degree in film production and cultural anthropology from Boston University.
