Lisa Hammer

Lisa Hammer

Independent Filmmaker

Organization: Wilson Arts Diversified, LLC

Website: https://www.wilsonarts.weebly.com

Biography

 
 Lisa Hammer is a writer, director, producer, editor, actress, and singer/composer. She is best recognized as the voice of Triana Orpheus on the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros and for her extensive music career as a singer-songwriter. She has directed the independent feature films Pox and Pus$bucket, and the CMJ Film Festival winner The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch which she co-directed with James Merendino. Lisa created The Pox Show starring H. Jon Benjamin, Jonathan Katz, Eve Plumb, and Arden Myrin. Lisa has directed such notables as Clayne Crawford, James Duval, Courtney Love, and Thurston Moore, to name a few. Lisa’s films have won awards from the CMJ Film Festival, Telly Awards, Hugo Awards, It Came From Kuchar Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Canada International Screenplay Festival, Ontario Film Festival, Antimatter, Indieworks, two from New York Press, and many more. She has had one-woman shows at the Olympia Film Festival, Perth International Film Festival, and the Duolun Art Museum in Shanghai, China. Her original series Maybe Sunshine is available on The ROKU Channel. Her series Turn of the Century was recently acquired by Night Flight Plus and is currently the streaming platform’s #1 most popular series. She produced the short Luke and Emma (dir. Levi Wilson) which is now streaming on AMC+, and she is executive producer and editor in the upcoming feature film Montauk starring Molly Ringwald. Her film Empire of Ache was acquired by the Getty Museum in a feminist film collection curated by Miranda July, and will be screened with The Future of Film is Female series at Nighthawk Cinemas and beyond, as well as being included in the book tour for Heidi Honeycutt’s I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies. Lisa Hammer is a writer, director, producer, editor, actress, and singer/composer. She is best recognized as the voice of Triana Orpheus on the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros and for her extensive music career as a singer-songwriter. She has directed the independent feature films Pox and Pus$bucket, and the CMJ Film Festival winner The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch which she co-directed with James Merendino. Lisa created The Pox Show starring H. Jon Benjamin, Jonathan Katz, Eve Plumb, and Arden Myrin. Lisa has directed such notables as Clayne Crawford, James Duval, Courtney Love, and Thurston Moore, to name a few. Lisa’s films have won awards from the CMJ Film Festival, Telly Awards, Hugo Awards, It Came From Kuchar Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Canada International Screenplay Festival, Ontario Film Festival, Antimatter, Indieworks, two from New York Press, and many more. She has had one-woman shows at the Olympia Film Festival, Perth International Film Festival, and the Duolun Art Museum in Shanghai, China. Her original series Maybe Sunshine is available on The ROKU Channel. Her series Turn of the Century was recently acquired by Night Flight Plus and is currently the streaming platform’s #1 most popular series. She produced the short Luke and Emma (dir. Levi Wilson) which is now streaming on AMC+, and she is executive producer and editor in the upcoming feature film Montauk starring Molly Ringwald. Her film Empire of Ache was acquired by the Getty Museum in a feminist film collection curated by Miranda July, and will be screened with The Future of Film is Female series at Nighthawk Cinemas and beyond, as well as being included in the book tour for Heidi Honeycutt’s I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies. Lisa Hammer is a writer, director, producer, editor, actress, and singer/composer. She is best recognized as the voice of Triana Orpheus on the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros and for her extensive music career as a singer-songwriter. She has directed the independent feature films Pox and Pus$bucket, and the CMJ Film Festival winner The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch which she co-directed with James Merendino. Lisa created The Pox Show starring H. Jon Benjamin, Jonathan Katz, Eve Plumb, and Arden Myrin. Lisa has directed such notables as Clayne Crawford, James Duval, Courtney Love, and Thurston Moore, to name a few. Lisa’s films have won awards from the CMJ Film Festival, Telly Awards, Hugo Awards, It Came From Kuchar Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Canada International Screenplay Festival, Ontario Film Festival, Antimatter, Indieworks, two from New York Press, and many more. She has had one-woman shows at the Olympia Film Festival, Perth International Film Festival, and the Duolun Art Museum in Shanghai, China. Her original series Maybe Sunshine is available on The ROKU Channel. Her series Turn of the Century was recently acquired by Night Flight Plus and is currently the streaming platform’s #1 most popular series. She produced the short Luke and Emma (dir. Levi Wilson) which is now streaming on AMC+, and she is executive producer and editor in the upcoming feature film Montauk starring Molly Ringwald. Her film Empire of Ache was acquired by the Getty Museum in a feminist film collection curated by Miranda July, and will be screened with The Future of Film is Female series at Nighthawk Cinemas and beyond, as well as being included in the book tour for Heidi Honeycutt’s I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies. Lisa Hammer is a writer, director, producer, editor, actress, and singer/composer. She is best recognized as the voice of Triana Orpheus on the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros and for her extensive music career as a singer-songwriter. She has directed the independent feature films Pox and Pus$bucket, and the CMJ Film Festival winner The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch which she co-directed with James Merendino. Lisa created The Pox Show starring H. Jon Benjamin, Jonathan Katz, Eve Plumb, and Arden Myrin. Lisa has directed such notables as Clayne Crawford, James Duval, Courtney Love, and Thurston Moore, to name a few. Lisa’s films have won awards from the CMJ Film Festival, Telly Awards, Hugo Awards, It Came From Kuchar Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Canada International Screenplay Festival, Ontario Film Festival, Antimatter, Indieworks, two from New York Press, and many more. She has had one-woman shows at the Olympia Film Festival, Perth International Film Festival, and the Duolun Art Museum in Shanghai, China. Her original series Maybe Sunshine is available on The ROKU Channel. Her series Turn of the Century was recently acquired by Night Flight Plus and is currently the streaming platform’s #1 most popular series. She produced the short Luke and Emma (dir. Levi Wilson) which is now streaming on AMC+, and she is executive producer and editor in the upcoming feature film Montauk starring Molly Ringwald. Her film Empire of Ache was acquired by the Getty Museum in a feminist film collection curated by Miranda July, and will be screened with The Future of Film is Female series at Nighthawk Cinemas and beyond, as well as being included in the book tour for Heidi Honeycutt’s I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies. Lisa Hammer is a writer, director, producer, editor, actress, and singer/composer. She is best recognized as the voice of Triana Orpheus on the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros and for her extensive music career as a singer-songwriter. She has directed the independent feature films Pox and Pus$bucket, and the CMJ Film Festival winner The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch which she co-directed with James Merendino. Lisa created The Pox Show starring H. Jon Benjamin, Jonathan Katz, Eve Plumb, and Arden Myrin. Lisa has directed such notables as Clayne Crawford, James Duval, Courtney Love, and Thurston Moore, to name a few. Lisa’s films have won awards from the CMJ Film Festival, Telly Awards, Hugo Awards, It Came From Kuchar Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Canada International Screenplay Festival, Ontario Film Festival, Antimatter, Indieworks, two from New York Press, and many more. She has had one-woman shows at the Olympia Film Festival, Perth International Film Festival, and the Duolun Art Museum in Shanghai, China. Her original series Maybe Sunshine is available on The ROKU Channel. Her series Turn of the Century was recently acquired by Night Flight Plus and is currently the streaming platform’s #1 most popular series. She produced the short Luke and Emma (dir. Levi Wilson) which is now streaming on AMC+, and she is executive producer and editor in the upcoming feature film Montauk starring Molly Ringwald. Her film Empire of Ache was acquired by the Getty Museum in a feminist film collection curated by Miranda July, and will be screened with The Future of Film is Female series at Nighthawk Cinemas and beyond, as well as being included in the book tour for Heidi Honeycutt’s I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies.
 
 

Lisa Hammer is a writer, director, producer, editor, actress, and singer/composer fro New York City. Her hometown is Salem, MA.

 
 

Films

Luke and Emma and a Gas Station on Franklin Ave (2023)

Role: Producer

A coming-of-age story set in 1980’s rural America where a mixed Asian boy navigates his way through love in a white world. This story focuses on 11-year-old Luke, who has a crush on his classmate Emma. They innocently talk and flirt outside while stopped at a gas station on a summer day. While they talk outside, Luke’s mother shops (and gets hit on by Emma’s father) inside the gas station’s mini-mart.

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Montauk (2024)

Role: Producer

Childhood friends set out to find treasure on a mysterious private island and discover the secrets behind the family who lives there.

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Great Kills (2024)

Role: Independent Filmmaker

A mockumentary series where a callous film crew follows a hitman around Staten Island while he does his kills. Acquired by Amazon Prime.

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The Sisters Plotz (2018)

Role: Director

The Sisters Plotz is a surreal, frothy musical romp inside the world of three eccentric heiresses: Dada poetess Celestia, manic inventor Ladybug, and dreamy painter Whimsellica. The sisters live in New York City with their darling butler, Reginald.

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We are grateful for the generous support of our sponsors:

National Endowments for the Arts
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Lowel Cultural Council
Cabot Family Charitable Trust
Liberty Mutual Foundation
City of Boston Arts and Culture