Lisa Hammer and Levi Wilson are a husband and wife filmmaking duo who have been working together for over 10 years. They have decades of combined experience in indie and mainstream film and television. They have created and produced comedy shorts, commercials, and contributed to feature length movies such as the CMJ Film Festival winner The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch and Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk! 2 where they worked with director James Merendino, Devon Sawa (Final Destination, Slackers), Ben Schnetzer (The Book Thief, World of Warcraft), and Sarah Clarke (Twilight). They have worked with and created comedy shorts and a feature film with Doc Hammer (The Venture Bros.), the feature films Pus$bucket and POX: The Movie with Ben Edlund (The Tick, Firefly, Angel, Supernatural), and The Pox Show with Jonathan Katz (Dr. Katz), H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Master of None), and Arden Myrin (Orange is the New Black, Inside Amy Schumer). Hammer and Wilson are the main members of the pop-punk band, Radiana, featured in the award winning original series, Maybe Sunshine.
Hammer’s and Wilson’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, Indieworks, Ontario Film Festival, Movies on a Shoestring, Antimatter, and two from New York Press. They have been official selections at Sundance, Big Apple Film Festival, Hudson Valley International Film Festival, and Hammer has been honored with retrospectives at the Olympia Film Festival, Perth International Film Festival, and the Duolun Art Museum in Shanghai. Lisa Hammer is a New York based indie film director, composer, singer, and actress. She studied film at Emerson College. She is best known as the voice of Triana Orpheus on the popular Adult Swim show, The Venture Bros. and for her extensive music career as a singer-songwriter. She sings and composes for her newest band, Radiana, available online. She has directed, written, and edited the indie feature films POX: The Movie and The Sisters Plotz, and co-wrote and co-directed with James Merendino the CMJ Film Festival winner, The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch. She edited the 2014 feature film, Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk! 2 which premiered at Cannes in 2015 and is now available on Netflix. She has appeared in the feature film The Networker with Sean Young and the CBS series Bull. Hammer directed the musical comedy The Sisters Plotz starring herself, Eve Plumb (Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Generation Renovation), and Allen Lewis Rickman (Boardwalk Empire, A Serious Man) which screened at the New York Women in Film and Television directors series at the Anthology Film Archives and for the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, now available on the Roku Channel and Fandango Now. Her film, Empire of Ache, was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum for display in their permanent collection of Feminist Films curated by Miranda July. Levi Wilson is a filmmaker and actor living in New York City. He has a BFA in Theatre Arts from the University of Kentucky. He is a published playwright with extensive theater directing experience in Los Angeles, and has won playwriting awards in New York City. He has appeared in David Chase’s Not Fade Away, James Merendino’s Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2, alongside Devon Sawa and James Duval, which screened at Cannes in 2015, and Friends From College with Keegan Michael-Key. He has teamed with Hammer and Merendino, appearing in The Invisible Life of Thomas Lynch, which won Best Narrative Feature at the CMJ Film Festival. He has also collaborated with Hammer and writer Ben Edlund for the indy film POX: The Movie. He co-wrote and directed the award winning original series, Maybe Sunshine. He was slated to co-star in the CBS series FBI: Most Wanted before the collapse of civilization. |