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Producer, Editor, Volunteer

Zac is a fourth-generation Hogle to choose a media-based career. But he didn’t want the stellar reputations of great grandfather Bill, grandfather Bruce or father Steve to influence his ability to land his first job on his own merits. He managed to pull off an interview at Aquila Productions without telling his future employer, Don Metz, his last name.

It’s apparent that Zac has what it takes to make it in the video production industry: the news sense, the creativity, the passion. Zac’s talents as a producer/editor are evidenced in numerous projects… whether tributes to Oilers’ fan favourites, or crowd pumpers for the Oilers and Eskimos, or a motivational mood-setter for the Stollery Children’s Hospital fund-raising auction at The Snowflake Gala.

“I have a really neat job. As a producer and editor, I get to see a project from the early stages of pre-production right through to the final edits.”

Zac recently finished a documentary called Edmonton 2030, and is in the early stages of Rodeo: An Eternity of Seconds, a television series that follows a number of cowboys on their path to the Canadian Finals Rodeo, which will air on the History Channel next spring.

While earning his Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in film and media studies at the University of Alberta, Zac started ANP Entertainment to focus on local and international groups in promoting projects that hold a high level of personal interest to him.

To that end, Zac worked with his father on a short film called Burundi is Crying to assist Youth for Christ in creating awareness of the plight of children in the impoverished African country. The 25-year old admits that the film, now being shown around the world to raise funds for YFC orphanages, was the toughest video he has ever had to edit.

“I love the freedom of having my own production company, along with working for Aquila. I love the fact that I can take a concept and develop it from start to finish. Eventually I want to work in fiction television, so having my own company really lets me develop what I want to be.”

Despite his hectic schedule, Zac coaches a women’s soccer team, and volunteers with the CNIB, Stollery telethons, Fort Edmonton Park and other not-for-profit organizations.

Whole-hearted commitment to one’s profession and community is part of the Hogle tradition. Zac does not disappoint.

- Written by Lauren Henrie, Edmontonians Sept 2009