Greetings — my name is Zack Lieberman. Welcome.
I was born in California, raised in the Pacific Northwest, went to university in Los Angeles (Fight on!), and moved to New York after graduating; I called Brooklyn home for 15 years, and recently moved to Vienna, Austria which has slowly but surely melted my heart and turned into home. When back in the states, I spend as much time as possible on my property in the great state of Wyoming 🤠
My professional background is in interactive product design and development: I came up launching some big web/video/music products at MTV, and more recently led digital production for an acclaimed Sony Pictures Television show, where I won an Emmy Award as part of a great team. I’ve since founded and built (+ sold! 🥳) the digital agency Silent Partners, where I led product design and development.
I’m currently leading product over at Company XYZ (a new digital product company I’ve co-founded), and working on some Big New Things elsewhere (i.e. personal projects).
I’ve had the privilege of executive producing and leading product/design/development on dozens of high-stakes projects, and I’ve overseen the design, development, and launch of interactive experiences and ecommerce applications for some of the largest media, wellness, fashion, biopharma, gardening, and hydroponics-related companies in the world. (Portfolio available upon request.)
I also co-founded the production + publishing company Exit Strategy and co-created the independent web series The West Side — the series captured worldwide acclaim and I won the 2008 Webby Award for Best Drama Series. I was co-named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film; the magazine heralded as “ingenious low-budget independent filmmaking that just happens to be viewable only on the Web.”
In my “free” time, I also lead product/development for a cutting-edge interactive publishing platform (a nights/weekends startup thing) as part of an ongoing personal project: a vibrant story called Max & Charlie. The project is slowly-but-surely being made into a feature film, video game, and graphic novel — what I like to call an “indie tentpole” model. The graphic novel was published in 2016 and was called “one of the best indie graphic novels of Fall”; we’ve won a few industry awards since. Stay tuned for the interactive ebook! 👀
I’ve create a few things people liked…
Webby Award, Best Drama Series
Our no-budget, nights-and-weekends-produced “urban western” series beat out some heavy hitters for the win. Click to check out some episodes!
25 New Faces of Indie Film, Filmmaker Magazine
The fine people of Filmmaker Magazine included me in their annual “filmmakers to watch” roundup (alongside fellow co-creator Ryan Koo). An honor! Click here to read the article!
Emmy Award, Best Informational Talk Show
This one feels a little strange to me, but I was a Senior Producer for Sony/Harpo/Sharecare, helping launch and lead production for the new Doctor Oz property — we won a Daytime Emmy and they gave me an award! I’ll take it!
Various awards, Best Illustration + Middle Grade Fiction
We independently created and published a truly lovely 112 page graphic novel in hardback and paperback, and won some nice indie awards. Check it out here!
I do my best to create refined products that push the boundaries of modern storytelling.
I’ve spoken regularly on industry panels discussing the state of New Media and independent content distribution and committed my early creative career to pushing the frontier of “transmedia” storytelling.
I more recently went “all-in” on stereoscopic 3D and started concentrating all efforts toward the development of feasible stereoscopic 3D workflows for independent filmmakers (click here to read the “Indie 3D” quasi-manifesto I wrote for Filmmaker Magazine a couple years ago; TLDR, I’m basically getting ready to make Max & Charlie into a badass lil’ indie 3D flick…)
I’ve spent the past decade+ experimenting with, developing for, and writing on the future of independent stereo 3D. At one point I started/ran a site called free3dglasses.com which sent 1000s of pairs of anaglyph glasses all over the world. You’ll see a lot of my 3D on this site… though certainly not as much as I’d like (I’ve been a reclusive artist as of late). I’ll get back to posting my art soon enough!
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