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Fred Zara

Orlando, Florida

Director / Producer

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Title/Occupation:  Director 

Gender: Male

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Fred Zara is a producer, director and editor, as well as the owner of Sketchbook Productions, an award-winning production company based in Orlando, Florida. Fred’s work has been showcased in film festivals throughout the Sunshine State and across the U.S. His most recent film, Confessions of an Italian American, nabbed a Best Documentary Short award from the 2007 Melbourne Independent Filmmaker’s Festival.

Fred first became involved in Florida’s film scene in 2000, when he enrolled in the film program at Orlando’s Valencia College. The Trenton, New Jersey, native has since worked on more than a dozen Florida-based independent films, both behind the camera and in front.

In 2005, Fred optioned his feature screenplay Skippy Lightfoot’s Perfect Day (which he co-wrote with his brother, Christopher) to the Los Angeles-based companies Sodium Entertainment and Scantily Clad Productions. The script is a comic fable based on the Zara brothers’ acclaimed 2003 short film of the same name.

In 2008, Fred was awarded a grant from The United Arts of Central Florida for his feature-length documentary Average Community, which is currently in post-production.

Fred lives in Orlando with his wife, Kris, their daughter Mackenzie and son Zander.