Zak Piper is an Emmy and Producers Guild Award-winning documentary filmmaker. His credits include producing the critically acclaimed film "Life Itself" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Critics Choice Award. Zak also co-produced the film "The Interrupters," which was hailed as one of the best films of the year by The New Yorker, the Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly and the LA Times. Prior to these films, Zak co-produced At the Death House Door, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was an Academy Award finalist. Zak currently produces or directs a number of documentary projects in development or production.