Zackary Canepari is a visual storyteller working in a variety of different mediums. He began his career as a photojournalist in India/Pakistan before teaming with filmmaker Drea Cooper in 2010 and launching the documentary film series “California is a place,” which screened at Sundance. The success of the California series led Canepari to Flint, Michigan to film the documentary feature “T-Rex,” co-directed with Cooper, about teenage Olympic boxer and Flint native Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, which premiered at SXSW, was featured on PBS, and was recently adapted into a feature film titled THE FIRE INSIDE. He is currently finishing a new documentary about Active Shooter Preparedness for HBO titled THOUGHTS & PRAYERS.
Flint is a Place is a cross-platform, episodic documentary series that seeks to document a specific moment within this American city in an intimate, character-driven way.
Learn MoreThe Economic Hardship Reporting Project presents a discussion with four of our video grantees about the process of making visual works that address important American aftermath issues, including: the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North; urban neglect; and the cultural conflict over abortion sparked by Roe v. Wade.
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