Zachary Fink
Cinematographer, director and producer, also writer
Zachary is an Emmy Award-winning 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. Most recently, he lensed the four-part series You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment for Netflix, directed by Academy Award-Winning director, Louie Psihoyos, which premiered in January 2024 on Netflix's Top 10 Shows in both the US and other markets. He's currently directing and DP'ing a feature documentary about Web3/Crypto founders navigating a startup incubator run by a prestigious venture capital firm. Before that, he shot the Emmy Award-winning Netflix film, A Trip to Infiniti. Previously, he spent a month filming in Antarctica where he field directed and lensed a series for PBS's NOVA called Polar Extremes about life and science at McMurdo Station. He shot State of Pride, a 2019 YouTube Original documentary in which 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 Infiniti. 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 longliner, or tracking reindeer migration with indigenous Arctic herdsmen, Zachary follows the story, manages ever-changing logistics, crafts beautiful images, and makes friends along the journey. The results are compelling human stories told in the most delightful way.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Cinematographer, director and producer, also writer
- 7 on MovieCove · 12 credits in all
Known for
What are Zachary Fink's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
A split, not a type: Light 1 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous2
- Other1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Zachary Fink's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Zachary Fink's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
12 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Thanks, Babs! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Any Problem is No Problem (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all shows
In Waves and War(2024)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all shows
A Trip to Infinity(2022)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Citizen Hearst (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Polar Extremes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Blood Sugar Rising(2020)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
State of Pride (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Rescue List(2020)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Career shape
A full career of 10 titles from 2018 to 2026.
Biggest box office
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026)
Highest rated
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026)
Most popular right now
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television (2025)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.
How do Zachary Fink's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 89th percentile, the median of all 5; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 89th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up5
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 7 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed5
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Zachary Fink work with?
People who share at least 2 of Zachary Fink's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; David Alvarado shares the most, 2.
Directors
- David AlvaradoShared titles: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026), Blood Sugar Rising (2020)See all 2 shared titles with David Alvarado
Composers
- William Ryan FritchShared titles: Blood Sugar Rising (2020), The Rescue List (2020)See all 2 shared titles with William Ryan Fritch
Producers
- Alyssa FedeleShared titles: You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (2024), The Rescue List (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Alyssa Fedele