Zack Bernbaum is a Canadian film director from

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.Julie Crawford, "Filmmaker draws on sibling rivalry for storyline". ''

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'', November 23, 2018. A graduate of the film studies program at

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, he founded his own production company, Ezeqial Productions, early in his career.Andres Guzman
"A (Socially Distanced) Conversation with Zack Bernbaum"
''The Underscene'', September 28, 2020. He named the company for his

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name, Yechezkel (Ezekiel), but opted to change the spelling for artistic reasons as he did not want his films to be perceived as religiously themed. He directed his feature debut, '' And Now a Word from Our Sponsor'', in 2013, and followed up in 2015 with ''

Cold Deck ''Cold Deck'' is a 2015 Canadian thriller film directed by Zack Bernbaum, written by Stéfano Gallo, Jason LaPeyre, Slater Jewell-Kempker, and starring Gallo, Robert Knepper, and Paul Sorvino. Gallo plays a compulsive gambler who, after a losing ...

''. In 2018 he released '' The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova'', which won the awards for Best Film and Best Director at the 2019

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.Jordan Pinto
"The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova wins best feature at CFF"
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'', March 25, 2019. He has also directed the short films ''So Soon Forgotten'' (2009), ''Captive Love'' (2016) and ''The Announcement'' (2020). As of 2020, he had two future film projects, ''Cut for Stone'' and ''(An)other'', in development.

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