Zachary Halberd

I remastered and color graded the only known surviving standard definition scans of the final half hour of Bruce Lee’s Game of Death. I wrote my own custom software based on Vapoursynth and developed a plugin for Davinci Resolve to clean and upscale the SD material to HD. I then color graded the material to match the HD remaster.

DJI // Jimmy Chin // Senior colorist

Feature Documentary // Colorist

Directed by: Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah

Premiere: DocNYC 2022

Draken // Short Documentary // Colorist

My collaboration with documentary filmmaker Ingela Travers-Hayward for WeTransfer’s branded documentary film Row Houses.

In Houston, Texas, Project Row Houses – launched in 1993 by a collection of African American artists – serves as a bolthole for members of underrepresented communities in the Third Ward area of the city. The group rescued a collection of derelict shotgun houses from destruction and transformed them into spaces for members of the community to take control of and utilize for purpose.

Boken Badge // Short Narrative // Colorist

Short Infrared Documentary

Short Documentary

Music Video

Documentary Series

Documentary Series

Commercial

My first collaboration with award-winning documentary filmmaker Brett Story (The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, The Hottest August, and Car Wash) was for the Mother Jones short documentary Sanctuary. The latest short film in a series of election-year documentaries about gun control, produced by Chicken & Egg Pictures,​ director Brett Story follows a handful of Coloradans with sharply differing perspectives on the controversial issue, including a state legislator and domestic abuse survivor, a member of a local militia, and a Colorado county sheriff.

Another fun collaboration with Ingela Travers-Hayward at Debreslay Films for a branded piece for Mailchimp. This short documentary follows a lobster-working immigrant as a shining example of business tenacity, hard work, and community leadership.

Short Documentary

Commercial

Short Narrative

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Short Documentary

Commercial

Feature Narrative

Short Documentary

Short Documentary

Short Documentary

Short Narrative

Feature Documentary

Commercial

Friend and 8mm aficionado documentary filmmaker Tatiana McCabe hired me to color a series of short branded documentaries for designer shoemaker Le Mondeur. Using both scanned 8mm footage as well as using my secret recipe to transform 4:3 archival news footage into Super 8mm, we were able to create a seamless retro lens through which to view the time-honored tradition of Italian and Portuguese shoe making.

Short Narrative

Documentary Series

Short Documentary

Australia's premier technology and science magazine was running an article about how every person is wired for creativity. When it comes to the brain, innovation is essentially problem-solving.

Corporate

Short Narrative

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Documentary Series

Short Documentary

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Commercial

Short Documentary

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Experimental

Short Documentary

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A short documentary providing a glimpse into the life of a Brooklyn cab driver as he moves through one season of his life.

Short Narrative

Commercial

Short Documentary

Short Narrative