Zachary Fink

Zachary is an Emmy Award-winning film director and cinematographer. He shot and co-directed The Rescue List, the story of three boys escape from modern slavery in Ghana. The film was acquired and broadcast by PBS's acclaimed series POV in March of 2020 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary in 2021. He recently spent a month in Antarctica where he field directed and lensed a series for PBS's NOVA called Polar Extremes about life and science at McMurdo Station. Prior to that, he shot State of Pride, a 2019 YouTube Original documentary in which activist Raymond Braun, along with Academy Award winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, explore the LGBT rights movement 50 years after Stonewall. In 2016, Zachary developed, produced, and shot The Ride of Their Lives, a short documentary film directed by Steve James about children who compete in youth bull riding rodeos. The film is featured in Amazon Studio's documentary series, The New Yorker Presents and premiered at Sundance. In his commercial work, Zachary has shot, directed, and produced documentary style ads for clients including Portal-A, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Steph Curry with Infiniti. During his tenure as the Director of Video for the George Lucas Educational Foundation, he cinematically re-branded the short documentary films at the center of the foundation's website, Edutopia.org. Zachary has produced and directed projects for The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and the Harvard Film Study Center. His masters degree in cultural anthropology gives him a unique ability to understand and connect with diverse audiences and communities. And his experience directing large teams while managing extensive projects means that he always has the big picture in mind. Whether he's hanging out of a helicopter over the Pacific ocean, trekking with a caving team through a Mexican cloud forest, bunking with tuna fishermen on a commercial long-liner, or tracking reindeer migration with indigenous Arctic herdsmen, Zachary follows the story, manages ever-changing logistics, crafts beautiful images, and makes friends along the way. Through it all, he sees story and structure, breaking complex narratives down to manageable productions and beautiful imagery. The results are compelling human stories told in the most delightful way.