About Zoë

Zoë Greenbaum, is an up-and-coming Brooklyn and London-based writer/director, visual artist and singer/songwriter whose brilliant and humoristic approach to narrative in The Weather Just Got Sexy - a multi-awarded, laugh-out-loud, coming-of-age feature comedy (now in development) - recently earned her the epithet “A Lighter Mamet.” Her feature screenplay, Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky, a magical realist, musical comedy-drama was a TOP-10 finalist in Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition last year, as well as in The Nantucket Film Festival’s Tony Cox Awards the year before.

Zoë’s signature, not-so-short 2022 film, We Are Bleach - a vibrant, music-driven film about two pansexual punk rockers in Camden’s rock ‘n roll underground - has been a multi-awarded selection at over a dozen festivals across the US and Europe. And her first essay in competition - the feature screenplay My World At Night – immediately placed in 2020’s Top 100 Dramas in the International Screenwriters' Association Table Read My Screenplay.

Please Be Kind (2024) is a jewel starring Astile Doherty and Neneh Kumar. And on a non-fiction front, Zoë is co-directing The Art of Change, a documentary on the impact of the arts in public education that is currently in pre-production.

When she is not making films, Zoë has a myriad of delightful occupations. Her single PLATONIC FUN, written in collaboration with the multi-awarded Ian Dench of EMF, released in April 2024 as part of a forthcoming album, Lost in London. A dedicated mentor to younger filmmakers, Zoë was the opening guest lecturer for 2023’s incoming class at London Screen Academy.

 

Writer/Director

Zoë’s third feature-length screenplay, Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky, in which a London therapist and his cosmetics executive wife, bound by their shared musical dreams, face their marriage’s greatest challenge: lies invading their private world.

FORMAT: Feature film

GENRE: Musical/Comedy/Romance

RUNNING TIME: 100 min.


PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

Top 10 Screenplays: Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope

Top 10 Screenplays: Nantucket Film Festival Tony Cox Award

Flickers Road Island Film Festival, Finalist

Cordillera International Film Festival, Finalist

Flickers’ Road Island International Film Festival, Semi-Finalist

Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, Semifinalist

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Honorable Mention

Sedona International Film Festival, Quarter Finalist

Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, Finalist

International Film Festival of Wales, Iris List

 

We Are Bleach (23 minutes, 2022): The pansexual lead singer of an up-and-coming London rock band flirts recklessly with adventure, threatening to destroy the love that is right in front of him.

Winner, Best Short Film: Berlin Independent Film Festival, Berlin, 2024

Winner, Best LGBT+ Short: London Independent Film Festival, London, 2022

Winner, Emerging Talent: New Renaissance Film Festival, London, 2022

Winner, Best Indie Short: New Renaissance Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2022

Winner, Audience Choice Award, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, New York, 2022

Winner, Best LGBT+ Short, The Golden State Film Festival, 2023

Selection, Montauk Film Festival, 2022

Berlin TV Series Festival, Short Films Corner, 2022

Selection, Orlando Film Festival, 2022

 

Inevitability, a 24 minute short film, is Zoë’s directorial debut, won for Outstanding Editing at The Art of Brooklyn in June 2021, received Honorable Mention at the New Wave Short Film Festival in Munich, and is part of the official selection of Beyond the Curve International Film Festival in Paris.