Zach Heinzerling is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director based in New York City. His debut film, Cutie and the Boxer, won the directing award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and  was nominated for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2021, he directed the critically acclaimed 6-part series “McCartney 3,2,1” for Hulu which was nominated for 6 Emmys. His latest docu-series entitled “Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult of Sarah Lawrence", premiered February 9th, 2023 on Hulu. The New York Times praised it as “a true crime coup,” The New Yorker called it "a remarkable work, advancing the prestige true-crime genre’s slow but steady reorientation toward centering victims," while Variety raved “...with a startling rawness and directness, Heinzerling’s work makes a case for itself as an unusually sensitive and strong outing in its genre.”