Teo Zagar has been producing films and videos since 1999. While interning with Ken Burns on the film Horatio’s Drive in 2001, Teo produced a feature-length documentary film about Slovenia’s War for Independence from Yugoslavia that won the Best Five College Filmmaker Award at the 2003 Northampton Independent Film Festival. His next film, Mind Games: A Love Story, depicted a family overcoming Lou Gehrig’s Disease. It won the Director’s Award at the 2006 Hearts and Minds Film Festival, was selected for the Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival, and was broadcast on Vermont Public Television. Teo’s other credits include Florentine Films’s Ohio: 200 Years (Associate Producer), Joanna Lipper’s The Supreme Price (Assistant Editor), Josh Melrod’s Cartoon College (Associate Producer), and The Last Irene, a co-production with the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (Direction/Production). He recently co-produced the independent feature, Major Arcana, directed by Josh Melrod.
Teo served in the Vermont House of Representatives between 2011 to 2017 as a member of the Agriculture & Forestry Committee. He lives and works off-the-grid, in a solar powered studio, in the town of Barnard, Vermont.
Credits
Major Arcana (Directed by Josh Melrod)
Independent Feature, 2017
Producer
The Local Motive – episode 1 (A Skinny Pancake/Vermont PBS Production)
Public Television Series, 2017
Segment Cinematography
The Supreme Price (Directed by Joanna Lipper)
Documentary Feature, 2014
Assistant Editor
Winner: Africa International Film Festival, Gucci Tribeca Spotlighting Women Documentary Award; Official Selection: Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Rio De Janerio International Film Festival
The Last Irene: Where did all the water come from?
Documentary Short, 2013
Director/Cinematographer/Editor
Produced by the Vermont Institute of Natural Science with support from the National Science Foundation and the University of Delaware.
Official Selection: New England Film Festival, Green Mountain Film Festival
Untitled William Stillman Autism Project
Pilot, 2012
Producer/Director/Cinematographer
(with Josh Melrod)
Cartoon College (Directed by Josh Melrod & Tara Wray)
Documentary Feature, 2012
Associate Producer
Official Selection: Vancouver International Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival
C. James Frazier in: Portrait of a Filmmaker
Experimental Short, 2008
Producer/Cinematographer/Editor
Supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts
Wally
Short, 2009
Producer/Cinematographer/Editor
Because You Can
ALS Association commercial, 2008
Cinematographer
Tom’s Dream
ALS Association PSA, 2008
Director/Cinematographer/Editor
Mind Games: A Love Story
Documentary, 2005
Producer/Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Editor
Winner: Director’s Award – Hearts & Minds Film Festival
Official Selection: Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival, Vermont International Film Festival, Green Mountain Film Festival
Broadcast on Vermont Public Television and distributed by the ALS Association
Ohio: 200 Years (Directed & Produced by Florentine Films/Hott Productions)
Documentary, 2003
Associate Producer/Assistant Editor
Broadcast on Ohio Public Television
Horatio’s Drive (Directed by Ken Burns)
Documentary, 2003
Post-Production Intern
Broadcast on PBS
Ten Days, Ten Years: Slovenia’s War for Independence
Documentary, 2001
Producer/Director/Writer/Cinematographer/Editor
Winner: Best Five College Filmmaker – Northampton Independent Film Festival
Shred the Rad
“Documentary”, 1999
Producer/Videographer/Editor
Longshot Productions
Post Office Box 875
Barnard, Vermont 05031
teo@longshotproductions.org
(802) 234–9125 [Studio]
(802) 558–3966 [Mobile]