Zan Lapp
editor
filmmaker
& photographer
about Zan
A National Student Emmy Nominee, winner of the Northwest regional Student Emmy for Best Writing, three-time Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold Key Recipient, and regionally recognized public speaker, Zan is a writer, editor, filmmaker and photographer. She is currently a junior at Kenyon College where she studies film, creative writing, and gender studies. Zan is passionate about helping audiences process trauma through film and television, and about making quality kids and family media. Born and raised in Parkdale, Oregon, she has worked behind a camera for over nine years. Zan has worked on set and as an editor for the National Geographic Live, National Geographic Education, Cascade PBS, Story Gorge, and for the Kenyon College film department. Zan's work as a writer, editor, and director have been recognized by 17 film festivals, from LA, to Toronto, to the longest running independent film festival in the world.
Zan is available for hire as a filmmaker, video editor, manuscript editor, photographer, and graphic designer near Portland, Oregon and Columbus, Ohio.
Email ZanLapp@gmail.com :)
Editing
Zan has edited trailers and documentaries for National Geographic, Oregon Water Resources Department, Gorge Impact Film Festival, Six Rivers Restorative Justice, Friends of the White Salmon Bluff, and Columbia Gorge Tourism Alliance, in partnership with Story Gorge, as well as independently and for Kenyon College
All By Ourselves Productions
Zan's production company, founded in 2019, with three scripted films, a documentary, and two new projects in the works to showcase.
BE HERE
TOMORROW
COMING SUMMER 2025
Zan's first
short film
A 15-minute horror short about living with chronic anxiety, Zan's first large-scale film project took nearly two years to complete. All The Little Impossibles stars four high school actors and was written, filmed, directed and edited by Zan during her junior and senior years of high school.
All The Little Impossibles premiered locally in the Bowe Theatre in January 2023, raising nearly $1,000 for Public School Students in The Arts . It has since been accepted into over a dozen film festivals and has been shown in Portland, Dallas, Chicago, Birmingham, Toronto, Oklahoma City, and Los Angeles. It was awarded "Best Horror Film" and "Best Acting" in the largest student-run film festival in the US, was an award finalist in the World Film Festival of Houston, the longest-running independent film festival in the world, received a Student Production Award for Best Writing from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences® Northwest Chapter, and was nationally nominated in in the Student Production Awards.
"weirdly
accurate"
–– Andre Seward
Programming Director,
Tallgrass Film Festival
"a phenomenal
depiction of anxiety"
–– Jonothan Sherman
Professor of Film, Kenyon College
"magic"
–– Rob Pileckis Festival Coordinator, Screen Test
"heartfelt"
–– Stephanie Strait Phantoscope Film Festival
COLLABORATION
with artist
MICHELLE YAMAMOTO
An artistic collaboration with Michelle Yamamoto, and Oregon-based and regionally recognized acrylic and oil painter. Yamamoto's series of five paintings titled "Ebb and Flow" are based on underwater photographs by Zan, featuring model Sydney Barrs. Yamamoto's work and pieces from this collection are on display year-round at 301 Gallery in Hood River, Oregon.
portraiture
Alpine
Exploration
a collection from the top of Wy'East
W/ model Katie Perkins
Parkdale, Oregon & Gambier, Ohio
Natural Light Portraits
