We don't scale up. We just get closer to the story — the same crew, the same care, whether it's a fourteen-minute short or a network doc.
Marisol started Lantern after five years cutting other people's compromises out of network docs — too many producers, not enough room for the actual story. Lantern is built the opposite way: one crew, one vision, from development through the final color pass.
She still shoots and edits on every project herself. That's not a budget decision — it's the whole reason the studio exists.
Every project starts as a real conversation about what's worth telling — not a deck built to sell a pitch. If the story isn't there yet, we wait.
No department heads managing department heads. The people on set are the people who made the decisions — which means fewer decisions get lost in translation.
Take three, and counting
A handful of projects a year, each given the room it needs.
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