Founded in the wintery months between 2006 and 2007 (Archeologists will debate for generations on the exact date of conception), Two Cut Films was formed by filmmakers Van Lam & Jason Outenreath. Check out their (our) IMDb filmography!
Van Lam
Although he won’t admit it, Van made his first film in an eighth grade technology and media class, creatively entitled “Tech/Media”. The topics were split into two semesters, and being a computer nerd, Van had taken the course for the technology oriented curriculum. After spending a semester building lego robots and balsa wood bridges, Van made his first foray into filmmaking with three short films: Dental Fross (sic), Merlin’s Redemption, and One Treasure, Two Takers. Long story short, he is certain that he owns the only surviving copies of them.
Van later studied Film & Digital Media Production and Literature at the prestigious and not at all hippie college University of California-Santa Cruz. Currently, he's what some might call a "Freelance Videographer" and what others might call "Unemployed."
More of Van's shenanigans can be found at his rarely updated personal website, VanLam.com.
Jason Outenreath
Currently Jason is a Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua, where he enjoys dancing salsa and speaking Spanish on a regular basis while saving trees and working with lots of children. Filmmaking however has been an important part of his life ever since meeting director/editor-extraordinaire Van Lam, who he has worked with on a regular basis since high school. Early into his freshman year at TLHS, Jason became obsessed with cinematography, and has had lengthy affairs with the beautiful work of Christopher Doyle, Sven Nykvist, Conrad Hall, and Vittorio Storaro.
In college Jason decided to start directing his own movies, and discovered that it was really fun and fulfilling. It has been an unexpected road for Jason, who for a long time thought he wanted to be a professional violinist/pianist, or photographer. Regardless, he continues to be inspired by music and the visual arts, and will never forget his Scottish Fiddling days since the age of 7, or the time he almost froze to death to take pictures of snow for the first time at Oberlin College, where he graduated from in 2010 with a degree in Cinema Studies. A native of the Bay Area, snow fascinated Jason for about two weeks, until he realized how uninhabitable and hostile it made the world during winter. Since then he’s tried to spend as much time as possible in Mexico, where he studied for a year, and Nicaragua, where he continues to serve in Peace Corps.