Sometime in the ’90s, Zach fell off a turnip truck, fresh from Colorado, and landed in the East Village, NYC. He has lived there ever since. Zach has produced short films, feature films, music videos, commercials, a couple of daughters, and many fun dinner parties. Zach’s sci-fi comic series, The Gatecrashers, has been optioned by a TV Studio to adapt to a live-action TV Series. He is currently developing Space Hoppers, a SciFi universe for a tween audience, with Kinetic Energy Entertainment, the first Space Hoppers card game will launch in fall 2023.Zach is the founder and CEO of Ghost Robot, a New York City-based creative studio. With Ghost Robot he has produced feature films such as Benjamin Dickinson’s critically acclaimed Creative Control and First Winter, Peter Callahan’s Against The Current starring Joseph Fiennes, Michelle Trachtenberg and Mary Tyler Moore, the Gotham Award-winning feature film Choking Man by director Steve Barron, and the critically acclaimed documentaries Cropsey, George Ratliff’s Hell House, and Sara Lamm’s Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox and Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin & The Farm Midwives.Mortensen has developed and produced groundbreaking short-form work, including the world’s first narrative shot in 360° immersive video, The New Arrival, by writer/director Amy Talkington, and Encyclopedia Pictura’s multi-award winning collaboration with Bjork, Wanderlust in 3D.