Zach Closs is a Toronto-based director, screenwriter, editor and actor, known for the short films Devout (2019), Step Into My Office (2020), Dredge (2021), Somebody: Humanizing Homelessness (2021) and Blooming (2022). He creates video essays for the YouTube channel Wild Flicks and the premium blu-ray label Chameleon Films, and has also appeared in the television programs Haunted Case Files (2018), Paranormal Survivor (2019), and Murder Wall (2019). Born in 1994 in Port Hope, Ontario, Closs graduated from Queen's University in 2017 with an honours degree in Film & Media and Philosophy.