Starting out working on Noah Baumbach’s comedy-drama Frances Ha, it was Zachary Treitz’s Sundance-nominated 2011 short film, We’re Leaving, that saw the young director cut his filmmaking teeth. The offbeat short tells the eviction story of Kentucky trailer park residents Rusty and his wife Veronica—plus their 19-year-old alligator Chopper.
New York-based Treitz is also known for his 2015 feature-film debut, Men Go to Battle, which won the Jury Award at Tribeca Film Festival and tells the story of a family living in nineteenth-century Kentucky, the director's home state.