
Zackary Canepari
Directing
Biography
Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper’s critically acclaimed Netflix Original Documentary series, Flint Town earned nominations from Critics Choice Awards and IDA. Their latest film, Fire In Paradise was awarded both an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award.
Known For

In a dystopic America, children are taught how to prepare for school shootings through elaborate drills. Yet what are intended as self-defense mechanisms are themselves deeply traumatic for students, parents, educators, and entire communities.
Thoughts & Prayers

Claressa Shields, a high school junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. But even at the pinnacle of success, Claressa has to reckon with the fact that not all dreams are created equal, and the real fight has only just begun.
The Fire Inside

Over a two-year period, filmmakers embedded with cops in Flint, Michigan, reveal a department grappling with volatile issues in untenable conditions.
Flint Town

Investigating the last years of the famous filmmaker in Rome, combining the history of Italian cinema with new production techniques and going behind the scenes on the filmmaking process.
Fellini Forward
Fresh reporting, including never-before-seen hand-written letters from prison, and key players speaking on camera for the first time tell the definitive inside story of the pursuit, capture, and killing of Whitey Bulger.
Hunting Whitey Bulger

In this documentary, survivors recall the catastrophic 2018 Camp Fire, which razed the town of Paradise and became California’s deadliest wildfire.
Fire in Paradise

T-Rex is an intimate coming-of-age story about a new kind of American heroine. For the first time, women’s boxing is included in the 2012 Olympics. Fighting for gold is 17-year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields. From the streets of Flint, Michigan, Claressa is undefeated and utterly confident. Her fierceness extends beyond the ring. Featuring her younger brother Dusable Lewis Jr, She protects her family at any cost, even when their instability and addictions threaten to derail her dream. As she gets closer to her dream her relationships with her coach and her family get more complicated. But Claressa is determined. She desperately wants to take her family to a better, safer place and winning gold could be her only chance.
T-Rex

'KISH' tells the story of a blind man who taught himself to see with sound in order to survive in a visual world.
Kish

It was the perfect storm. A global pandemic. An app aspiring to democratize trading. A group of Reddit users stuck at home with stimulus dollars to burn. And a video game company on its last legs. DIAMOND HANDS is the incredible true story of how an army of retail traders rallied around GameStop to rock our financial system. This is the legend of r/WallStreetBets.
Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets

A group of elderly swimmers from a retirement community regularly practices routines and water stunts to maintain health and strength.