Lance is a DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of MHP. Lance produced HOLDING LIAT, The First Step, City of Trees, and the Webby Award-winning documentary series, The Messy Truth. Lance was selected to the 2018 Sundance Creative Producers Summit, the 2017 Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship and was named to the DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list in 2021. Lance was awarded five Individual Arts Fellowships by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities between 2014-2024. In 2014, Lance received the DC Mayor’s Arts Award, the highest honor given to working artists in the city. Lance served two terms as Board Member of Docs in Progress, is a board member of the Foundation for the Augmentation of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF), and has been an active member of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) since 2016. Lance holds a bachelor’s degree in history and film from Dartmouth College.