
Clone of Zachary Barr
Zachary Barr is a longtime storyteller who has worked in print, audio and documentary film. Early in his career, he worked for StoryCorps, a national project to record stories of everyday people. He also compiled a series of stories about the families of American military personnel killed in Iraq, which later became a book, Never Coming Home. His reporting has been featured on NPR, Slate, Marketplace, MSNBC, MediaStorm and in The New York Times. His career in film began with a trip to Mount Everest that resulted in the multiple-award-winning film High Tension. Showdown at Horseshoe Hell (Mountainfilm 2016) documents the wildest event in the climbing world. Together with Sender Films, Barr helped to direct the humorous profile of two of climbings young starts, Matt Segal and Will Stanhope, in the film Boys in the Bugs (Mountainfilm 2017). He is also the co-director of Up to Speed and Age of Ondra (Mountainfilm 2019).