How It StartedMy parents named me Zachary which means "to be remembered". My mom thought it would be a good name for a famous hockey player. For some reason though, I never became a hockey player.
My story starts with a joke. When I was 14 years old, I was sitting on a trampoline with a couple friends. One friend said, "It would be funny if we filmed ourselves fighting on the trampoline", and then I said, "It would be even funnier if we came up with a story about why we were fighting on a trampoline". Thus the web series "Trampoline Wars" was born. It's still on Youtube. I hope you never find it.... It was that moment though that sparked my journey into becoming a filmmaker and since then three things have been consistent: my love of storytelling, the focus on "why", and making really depressing movies. Kidding! |
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In my 20's I dedicated my life to running the CineCentral Filmmakers Society - a non-profit organization run by filmmakers for filmmakers to connect, learn, and collaborate.
I started the society in 2013 at the age of 20, and I continued to run it for nine years. And then I turned 30. |
How It's GoingMy parents named me Zachary which means "to be remembered". For a long time I thought that was a name I had to live up to. That I had to become someone who was meant to be remembered, but now my name means something else to me. It's not that I need to be remembered, but rather that there is something within myself that needs to be remembered. I'm now on that journey to remember who I am and be that person.
In 2025, my journey has led me to starting a new business called Lyfecraft which is a self-actualization program to help people make life more fun and fulfilling. What I really hope to do though is help other people also remember what it is inside themselves that needs to be remembered. |
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