She continued her education studying producing and directing at Columbia University’s summer program in New York; Writer’s workshop at the Script Factory, London and Director’s workshop, Director’s Guild of Canada.

Films include: Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer, a Documentary with Singer/actor Olivia Newton-John; a Canada/ New Zealand Feature Co-Production Punch Me in The Stomach; the Gemini Nominated Dramatic Series; The Atwood Stories and Several Short Films.

Recent Films Include: A Feature Documentary We Are Here and A Short Drama, Mr. Bernstein winner of Won Best Drama at The Toronto International Short Film Festival.

In Addition to Be a Proud Member of Film Fatales Canada, Zuckerman Is Also Member of The Independent Film Project, New York; Directors Guild of Canada; Has Served as A Jury Member for The Ontario Arts Council, Media Arts Program; a Jury Chair for A Gemini Awards at The Academy of Film and Television and An Early Member of Femmes Du Cinema De La Télévision Et La Vidéo a Montréal.

Zuckerman Just Completed Her Feature Documentary After Munich and In Development with Eone on A Television Series Based on The Celebrated Writer Margaret Atwood’s First Novel The Edible Woman; Two Feature Documentaries, an Austrian-Canada Co-Production The Viennese Letter and A Dutch – Canada Co Production, Silent House.

Z films inc.

Zuckerman’s company Z FILMS INC. has produced a wide range of films and television programs with an emphasis on adaptation from fiction and theatre, social documentary and performing arts.

As producer and director, Zuckerman has won numerous awards and her work has been recognized at film festivals around the world.

They has just completed her feature documentary After Munich about the aftermath of the Munich Olympic massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in 1972 and how four women’s lives are changed forever. In development on two documentaries The Viennese Letter about two Viennese lovers separated by World War II, forgotten by time and separated by an ocean and one modern woman’s attempt to give them a voice again and Silent House set during pre-and-post-revolutionary Iran, a story of how a house in Tehran becomes the central landmark during the revolution and how three generations of women struggle for liberation after the ousting of the Shah. They are also in development on and a dramatic tv series with Eone based on the celebrated writer Margaret Atwood’s first novel The Edible Woman.

What we work with

Area
Co-productions, International Sales, Pre-sales 

Genre
Environment, Gender, History, Politics, Religion & Ethics 

Lengths/Formats
Series, Single/One-off, Feature, 52’/60’, 70+ mins

Looking to meet at AIDC
Interested in colleagues with mutual interests: projects focused on women; history and politics with special interest in the Middle East.

Recent Successes/Commissions 

Half the Kingdom – documentary,
A Matter of Choice – documentary short,
Punch Me in the Stomach – feature performance,
Exposure – documentary,
Passengers – short drama,
The Sunrise – short drama (series),
Making the Cut – documentary,
Ladies and Gentlemen: Biddie Schitzerman – short drama,
We Are Here – feature documentary,
Mr. Bernstein – short drama,
After Munich – feature documentary

Australian companies we have worked with 

I have colleagues in Australia but have not done a co-pro in Australia only in New Zealand.