A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Zach Rineer is a Philadelphia-based filmmaker hailing from Delaware roots. Zach has been recognized for his producing and directing work on over 50 productions over the past five years with a passion for telling stories that focus on the human condition from warped perspectives and heightened scenarios. In 2022, Zach graduated from Temple University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing for Film and Television. Recently, Zach served as lead producer alongside Yoni Azulay on IDLE SPEED (2023), BEYOND CLOSED DOORS (2022), and NO DYE (2021) which has screened at Nashville, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, and NFFTY Film Festivals. Zach's short film, Nobodies (2020), was selected to screen at seven festivals and was the recipient of the Best Jury Award at Red Wood Film Festival 2020.
Director:
2020 Nobodies
2022 Nobody Left Behind
Editor:
2020 Nobodies
2022 Nobody Left Behind
Executive Producer:
2020 Nobodies
2022 Nobody Left Behind
Music:
2020 Nobodies
2022 Nobody Left Behind
2022 Point Pleasant
Producer:
2020 Nobodies
2022 Nobody Left Behind
2022 Point Pleasant
2023 Idle Speed
Sound Mixer:
2020 Nobodies
2022 Nobody Left Behind
2022 Point Pleasant
2023 Idle Speed
2024 Mercy For The Meek
Writer:
2020 Nobodies
2022 Nobody Left Behind
2022 Point Pleasant
2023 Idle Speed
2024 Mercy For The Meek
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.