Lance Weiler is an American filmmaker and writer from Pennsylvania, and the Director of the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia University School of the Arts.

The Last Broadcast made cinematic history on October 23, 1998 as the first all-digital release of motion picture to be stored and forwarded via geosynchronous satellite.

In 1997, he teamed up with Stefan Avalos to co-write, direct, produce and star in a horror film, The Last Broadcast, based on the technique of found footage.

[2] With his writing partner Chuck Wendig, Weiler wrote Collapsus: The Energy Risk Conspiracy, which received an International Emmy nomination for best Digital Fiction in 2011.

Weiler founded the content creator resource The Workbook Project and network, the discovery and distribution film festival From Here to Awesome, and a complimentary conference series, DIY Days.

[9] Weiler was selected for two World Economic Forum steering committees, one on the future of content creation and another on digital policy.

[12] Weiler's work has been featured in Time, Forbes,[13] and Wired,[5] and on television programs such as Entertainment Tonight and CNN[citation needed].

[14] In the fall of 2013, Weiler created an immersive storytelling/play experience entitled Body/Mind/Change, which launched at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto at its film festival.

Most recently, Lance and collaborator Nicholas Fortugno have started prototyping a new immersive storytelling experience that mixes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with AI and Machine Learning.

He has spoken at the Cannes, Berlin, and Sundance film festivals; and has consulted for large ad agencies, entertainment companies and corporations.