Career
Cooper & Hemingway: The True General was reviewed by The New York Times film critic Andy Webster on October 11, 2013 and was named an New York Times Critics’ Pic by Manohla Dargis, A. O. Scott and Stephen Holden. Webster said the picture was proof that the work of these two men "endures and so does what they stood for". Zampella also produced the 110th Anniversary Birthday Celebration of Jazz Legend Duke Ellington in conjunction with the Mayors Office of the City of New York and the MTA when the Honorable Michael Bloomberg Mayor designated "Duke Ellington Day" to celebrate the anniversary of the jazz legend’s birth.
On September 11, 2015, Zampella received an Editor"s Pic from Cable News Network for his ireport/photo essay on the 14th anniversary attack on September 11, 2001.
Zampella was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, and resides in New York City. Inside High Noon: Inside High Noon examines the political and blacklisting controversy — and Cooper"s integral role in combating blacklisting — during the filming of the 1952 film classic, High Noon.
Frank Langella narrator (among on-camera participants: President Bill Clinton and Albert II, Prince of Monaco). Sergeant York: Of God And Country: The documentary examines how the 1941 classic, Sergeant York — and Cooper himself — became embroiled in the isolationist and Congressional turmoil leading up to World World War World War II Liam Neeson narrator.
Zampella & Mulholland"s most recent documentary Cooper & Hemingway: The True General, narrated by Sam Waterston, Len Cariou as Ernest Hemingway.
Zampella & Mulholland began work in February 2015 on a documentary entitled Elmore Leonard: The Dickens of Detroit on author Elmore Leonard. The documentary film explores how Leonard started, why he wrote what he did and how he arrived at his lean, terse, minimalist trademark. Zampella served as Producer of a radio podcast show,, for four years, from 2007 to 2010.
He produced interviews with both current Hollywood artists and those with first-hand knowledge of the Classic Hollywood era.
Zampella hired author and film historian Meir Z. Ribalow to co-host the podcast with Mulholland.