Zach Helm

Birth : 1975-01-21, Santa Clara, California

History

Zach Helm (born January 21, 1975 in Santa Clara, California) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He wrote the internationally-performed stage play Good Canary, wrote and directed the film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007), and has staged one-man performance pieces, most notably his revival of Spalding Gray's Interviewing the Audience.

Profile

Movies

Deep Water

Screenplay

Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family.

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Screenplay

Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium—the strangest, most fantastic and most wonderful toy store in the world. After Mr. Magorium bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once-remarkable Emporium.

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Director

Stranger Than Fiction

Screenplay

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.