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Zach Rineer

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.

Known For

Sweet Tooth
N/A

As Doe Town gears up for its Annual Smile Contest, the uptight and vain undefeated champion (Pete Gardner) spirals out of control when a gifted box of chocolates unleashes his uncontrollable Sweet Tooth (Tony Award Winner Marissa Jaret Winokur).

Sweet Tooth

2026
Alice-Heart
10.0

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.

Alice-Heart

2025
Idle Speed
7.0

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

Idle Speed

2023
The Walls
10.0

A Father on deathrow escapes prison to see his Daughter and Grandson one last time.

The Walls

Is It Time?
N/A

A man addicted to visiting his memories wrestles with a promise he made his father when he was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Is It Time?

Dewey Days
N/A

What starts as an undesired move to the town of Dewey Beach for the summer, slowly defines prospective law student, Clarice's, outlook toward life as she navigates work, relationships, and music through her job at the local dive.

Dewey Days

2025
Accept It
N/A

A revelation involving Demo CDs causes the already strained relationship of a mother and her son to degrade further as pent up secrets are exposed.

Accept It

2022
Crescendo In
N/A

During a writing retreat, an undermined member of an indie rock band discovers a connection to a supernatural presence.

Crescendo In

2024
Mercy For The Meek
10.0

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.

Mercy For The Meek

2024
Point Pleasant
N/A

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

Point Pleasant

2022
Short King
N/A

An insecure, status-obsessed man spirals into obsession and sabotage after a charming guest calls him “short” at his surprise birthday party.

Short King

Nobodies
N/A

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

2020
8 A.M.s
N/A

After multiple restless nights at college, freshman, Adam Manwell, begins to have a recurring dream where he is in an infomercial for a sleeping medication and is being terrorized by the spokesman, Dennis. When Adam starts seeing a student that looks identical to Dennis in real-life, he begins to lose his grip on reality and not know what is actually happening and what is in his head.

8 A.M.s

2019
Buckets of Fun
N/A

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

Buckets of Fun

Nobody Left Behind
N/A

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.

Nobody Left Behind

2022