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Bio

Filmmaker. Writer. Friend.

Documentary Director, Producer, Editor

TLDR: J Cole Lansden Films is creating perspective by making creative filmmaking and storytelling methods available to anyone.

Love working in both narrative and documentary filmmaking although in recent years I’ve spent the majority of my time working in documentary.

My main goal is to not only write and tell my own stories but to apply the same storytelling techniques to the stories of those around me.

In documentary I prefer to work take a more verite approach and let the subjects tell their stories in their “natural state” (I’m an AR native) with as little staged interviews or situations as possible.

Cut my teeth in documentary working on projects like HBO’s feature length “Methstorm,” Vice’s “Last Chance High” series and feature length “Shelter” but now have a few documentary projects of my own in various stages of development.

In narrative filmmaking of any genre the stories I write reflect normal life by showing them BIGGER or by exaggerating life, taking a real situation or story and showing it in its most extreme circumstances and most compelling moments. I like to take real life situations or concepts and address them in their extremes or in a way that is larger than life in order to illustrate them in a way that is both thought provoking and compelling.

Director of Keys to the City TV
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