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Lisa van Dam-Bates

FILMMAKER // EDITOR // STORE

EDITOR

Brandon Bye’s More Paint, out summer 2025

I Photographed January 6. Trump’s Pardons Can’t Erase What I Saw.

January 6, 2021 – photo by Nate Gowdy

The Main Office Podcast

A deep dive into the American public education system.

OUT OF THE BLUE: Naked Confessions on Gender Transition

Johnnie Joy Blue’s Out of the Blue: Naked Confessions on Gender Transition.

Nate Gowdy’s Insurrection – hardcover out on January 6, 2023

Artificial Informer

Brandon Robert’s Artificial Informer, an electronic journal of machine learning

Contact

I am a director, editor, producer and HMUA/FX artist for hire.

Support my work.

I am interested in working with historically marginalized and excluded peeps.

For custom blood orders, or if you want to collaborate – send me an email:

lisa.vandambates@gmail.com

Find me on social media:

@lisa.vandambates

@damcustomblood

@lisavandambates.bsky.social

Bio

Hey, I’m Lisa. I like dogs, especially my special needs rescue Kisses (RIP) and her lil’ sibs Muddy and Bleppie. I do a lot of things, but mostly I edit technical writing and books, make blood for film and direct horror movies. In 2019 I acquired distribution for my first film, horror feature Marla Mae. I’m currently in development on my second feature Mother is Sick.