Zach Rineer

Directing

Biography

Zach Rineer is an NYC-based filmmaker hailing from Philadelphia and Delaware roots. Zach has been recognized for producing and directing work on over 30 short films featured in Nashville, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, Rehoboth Beach, and NFFTY Film Festivals. In 2022, Zach partnered with Yoni Azulay to produce the western thriller short film, Idle Speed, which was featured at the 2023 Cannes Short Film Corner and Awarded the Best Producing Undergrad Award by NYU's 2023 First Run Film Festival. Idle Speed had its public release in 2024 on Omeleto. Zach also has an extensive background in producing, writing, and directing alongside collaborator Mike Macera, on many short films, including Nobody Left Behind, which has amassed over 80k views online. In 2024, Zach took on his first narrative feature film as a producer, with Mike Macera as writer/ director, in the coming-of-age drama, Alice-Heart. The film is set to have its World Premiere at Slamdance Film Festival 2025 in Los Angeles, CA.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

Point Pleasant

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Ellis and his friends break up, fall in love, and sell postcards.

Alice-Heart

10.0(0.0K)

Alice-Heart is an aimless college student residing in Philadelphia. She aspires to be a famous writer but drops out of school in her last semester of senior year on a whim. Immediately cut off from her disappointed Filipino mother and dumped by her studious boyfriend, she finds that she has to pay bills on her own for the first time. Distraught, she takes solace in her neighbor Tony, a self sufficient freelance photographer. Tony encourages her to pursue her passions and hold onto her friendships. With this in mind, Alice-Heart navigates the beginnings of adulthood and combats “adult baby” allegations along the way.

Buckets of Fun

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An impressionable college sophomore finds her friend group in chaos when an older actor moves in.

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Buckets of Fun

Lance

Production

MOVIE

Point Pleasant

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Ellis and his friends break up, fall in love, and sell postcards.

Idle Speed

7.0(0.0K)

Two friends find themselves in the life-threatening crosshairs of a merciless shooter while taking a detour through New Mexico.

Mercy For The Meek

10.0(0.0K)

Rose was up all night dealing with two equally annoying pests—a horny boyfriend and a squeaking mouse that has somehow managed to climb into her bedroom ceiling. With her mother across the country attending a distant relative's funeral, Rose is home alone, and her boyfriend George is eager to capitalize on the opportunity. However, when Rose finds out that the mouse giving her a migraine scampered under her bed and ate a bag of her marijuana edibles, she and George must decide its fate.

Nobodies

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Nearly two years after an apocalyptic event, resources have become scarce as friends, Drew and Patrick, raid homes in hopes of finding food and supplies.

Nobody Left Behind

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After a traumatic event occurs, friends, Drew and Patrick, must decide what their next move is in a desolate world post-outbreak. As the boys go further into their journey, they reflect upon what they have lost along the way and continue to drift apart.

Nobodies

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Nearly two years after an apocalyptic event, resources have become scarce as friends, Drew and Patrick, raid homes in hopes of finding food and supplies.

Nearly two years after an apocalyptic event, resources have become scarce as friends, Drew and Patrick, raid homes in hopes of finding food and supplies.

Nobodies

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Nearly two years after an apocalyptic event, resources have become scarce as friends, Drew and Patrick, raid homes in hopes of finding food and supplies.

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Nobodies

Writer