He collaborated with Terrence Malick on the script to his directorial debut, the road movie, Deadhead Miles.
Zimmerman received a Saturn Award nomination as Best Director for the film, a predecessor to more well-known modern parodies of the horror genre.
Charmed), the redneck crime exploitation film Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, the made-for-TV wrestling comedy/drama Mad Bull, the failed TV pilot film Shooting Stars, and the teen fantasy comedy Teen Witch.
Zimmerman's last film was the six-minute comic short Chuck and Wally on the Road.
He also worked as a script analyst,[1] taught screen-writing courses at UCLA's Extension and Certificate Program, and taught classes on both writing feature scripts and directing actors for film and television at the USC School of Cinema and Television.