Zachary K.

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Zachary Kerschberg is a narrative and documentary filmmaker based in the Bay Area. Born in the United States, he has lived in South America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. His narrative films have screened at prestigious festivals around the world, including Cannes, SXSW, and Rhode Island, and his documentary films on disability have had special screenings at the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Paralympics. He most recently produced A Ciambra, which won the Sony Discovery prize at the 53rd Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. His last documentary, Seeing the Full Sounding, won Best American Short Documentary 2015 at the American Documentary Film Festival. Black Dog, Red Dog, a ten-director NYU collaboration based on the poetry of Stephen Dobyns, starring James Franco, Chloë Sevigny, and Olivia Wilde, is Zach’s first feature narrative and premiered at the Guanajuato International Film Festival 2015. Beauty Factory, Zach’s first feature-length documentary, has world-wide distribution and is the #1 selling Spanish-language documentary on iTunes. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Board of Review Student Grant, a Janowsky Award, a Wasserman Award, an Agosto Foundation Residency, and a Berlinale Talent Campus alum. Zach holds an Honors B.A. from UC Berkeley in Romance Languages and Literatures and M.F.A.’s in Dramatic Writing and Film Production from New York University.

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