About the Filmmaker Thomas Zambeck is a loyal native to the metro Detroit area. With a keen interest in film from a very early age, Zambeck began working as a videographer while he was still in high school, videotaping sporting events for local broadcast. He was first published at age seventeen when a poem he wrote was accepted by Chainsaw Orgasms, a quarterly anthology with national distribution. Pursuing film and English simultaneously, Zambeck attended the Motion Picture Institute of Michigan in 1999, where he directed his first short film, The Writer's Block, a seven-minute movie that has since toured various film festivals around the world. At age twenty, he moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he continued work as a videographer with Jade Pig Productions, a private company whose list of clients includes NASCAR, Fox Sports, and the Van Andel Arena. It was with the help of Jade Pig that Zambeck was able to write and direct Ashcan, his first extended short, which was filmed on both DVCAM and 16mm. In December of 2004, Zambeck completed work on his Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where he majored in English. During his collegiate career, Zambeck worked on both high-budget studio films (8 Mile) and independent projects (The Sweepers, Standing in the Shadows of Motown). He has been published in such literary journals as Tooth and Fifty Word Fiction, and currently resides in his hometown of Troy, where he works as a consultant for Anchor Bay Entertainment, the largest independent distributor of DVDs and home videos in the United States.