Zach Helm was born on January 21,1975 and is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
13 Facts About Zach Helm
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In 1996, Helm graduated from DePaul University, where he trained as an actor.
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Zach Helm wrote the 2006 fantasy comedy-drama film Stranger than Fiction.
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Zach Helm won the National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay and the PEN Center USA West Literary Award in the Screenplay category.
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Zach Helm was nominated for the Critics Choice Award for Best Writer, the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Saturn Award for Best Writing.
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In 2006, Zach Helm was approached to direct Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium, for which he had previously written a screenplay.
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Zach Helm began Interviewing the Audience in 2008, a revival of one of Spalding Gray's performance pieces which he had seen while in college.
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Zach Helm's approach differed from Gray's in that Zach Helm's conversations were entirely extemporaneous, without any prepared questions, and the audience members were drawn at random.
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Zach Helm tended to find and illuminate themes and connections within the interviews, thereby creating a through-line for each performance as it happened.
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Zach Helm wrote Le Bon Canari, which was produced in France in 2007, then translated into Spanish and produced in Mexico.
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In 2015, Zach Helm directed Culo Quasars Cocaine Chaos, which he adapted from the true story of Paul Frampton.
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Zach Helm adapted the Epic Magazine article "The Mercenary" for Fox in 2016, collaborating with journalists Josh Davis and Josh Bearman.
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Zach Helm was married to actress Kiele Sanchez from 2001 to 2008.