His short films have screened at festivals around the world, including Fantastic Fest, Florida Film Festival, Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival and Dead By Dawn Scotland International Film Festival. INTERIOR, Zachary's feature-length debut, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Horror Feature at the renowned Shriekfest Film Festival in LA, Best Director at the NYC Horror Film Festvial, Best Thriller at the Atlanta Horror Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the StarLite Film Festival, who called it "one of the best films ever made about digital filmmaking." Zachary holds a BFA in Film Production and an MFA in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida, where he teaches courses in production and cinema studies in the Film area of SVAD.