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My life changed in 2019, when I won the audience award at South by Southwest for a short film I wrote, directed, and produced about the growing youth anxiety surrounding school shootings in America. That experience showed me that I was capable of making an effective and meaningful story through my favorite form of art, filmmaking. Shortly after the festival, I decided to move to Los Angeles to study and obtain a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Filmmaking. Before graduating, I started writing what would become my first feature film, titled Stitched. In 2023, at 21 years old, I launched a crowdfunding campaign for my passion project / independent feature, and ultimately raised $72,000 with my friends; to shoot the movie in my hometown of San Antonio, Texas. Production lasted 45 DAYS during June & July of the same year, and to this day remains to be the greatest experience of my entire life. As the film has been in post-production for all of 2024, I’ve continued to work professionally as a writer, director, producer, 1st AD, and photographer.
My name is Zach Goodwin, I try to make my life about art, and to make my art about life.
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Artist Type: Literary Arts: Author/Writer; Media Arts: Filmmaker, Graphic Artist, Producer; Visual Arts: Mixed Media Artist, Photographer
Artist Style: Literary: Documentary, Fiction, Non-Fiction; Visual Art: Abstract, Collage, Documentary, Experimental, Narrative/Historical, Portraiture, Social Commentary
Artist Medium: Computer; Film; Photography
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
This is hard to summarize as I have different approach for writing, directing, photographing, and editing. In everything I create, my objective is to have the audience or viewer feel a strong sense of expression. My emphasis and pleasure as a storyteller is creating expression through images, sometimes hundreds of thousands, other times, just one.
When writing a screenplay, I intensely focus on the structure of the story, HOW and WHY it's told the way it is. For Stitched, my first feature screenplay, I wrote around the concept of someone who gets to listen to every single conversation that's ever been held about them during their life. Setting specific rules and limitations for the journey forced me to be extremely creative in how information was being delivered the audience. My inspiration for this is movies that require a diagram to fully understand, i.e., Inception, Primer, Mr. Nobody, and Tenet. Though I have an avid love for Sci-Fi and complex structure, I also have a deep appreciation for film that tackles very personal dilemmas. While some enjoy film for escapism, I value the stories that help me confront my own struggles and see them in a lens, literally.
