Zachary Godshall
Associate Professor
M.F.A., UCLA
godshall@lsu.edu
219-A Allen Hall
Biography
Zachary Godshall makes fiction and nonfiction films about unsung people and places that exist at the fringes of culture. His films have played at the Sundance Film Festival, on Time.com, and The Documentary Channel, and they have been acclaimed by The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Oxford American, among others. In 2026, Zack held a position as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar at TU Delft in the Netherlands where he taught documentary filmmaking and researched stories about living with water. Zack earned an MFA in film directing from UCLA and is currently an associate professor in the Department of English at LSU where he teaches film and screenwriting in the Creative Writing and Screen Arts programs and in the Ogden Honors College.
Area(s) of Interest
Screenwriting, Independent Filmmaking, Documentary Filmmaking, Editing