Zoë Greenbaum
- Director
- Writer
- Art Department
Zoë Greenbaum, is a Brooklyn and London-based, award-winning writer/director, visual artist and singer/songwriter.. Her feature-length screenplay, Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky, a musical comedy-drama with magical-realist touches, has had 14 nominations and awards in the past year including: TOP-10 finalist in Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenwriting, finalist at the prestigious Flickers' Rhode Island And Cordillera Film Festivals, as well a TOP10 nomination in Nantucket's Tony Cox Screenwriting Awards.
After receiving her BFA in gag manga from Kyoto Seika University, the distinguished center for manga and anime in Japan, Zoë, a tremendous fan of British film, decided to follow in the footsteps of Stanley Kubrick, setting off to make movies in the UK. In 2022, after a Covid-infused year at London Film School, she left school to make her second not-so-short film, We Are Bleach, starring Zachary Goldman and Sonnei Garces. At the suggestion of French director Arthur Joffé, Zoë took on the film's third lead, playing the mysterious April.
We Are Bleach (2022), shot in London's most iconic clubs, is a vibrant, music-driven film about two pansexual punk rockers, that immediately garnered Best Indie Short and Best LGBT+ awards in Amsterdam and London respectively, the minute it hit the festival circuit. "Reminiscent of a young Todd Haynes," We Are Bleach received an Audience Choice award in New York, an Emerging Talent Award in London and then another Best LGBTQ award in Hollywood. Bleach was an official selection at several festivals in the US and Europe including the Montauk Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival, the Berlin TV Series Festival and the Queenshead Mini-Fringe Film Festival in London, among others.
A quirky and beguiling writer, Zoë's unproduced, feature-length screenplay, Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky (2021) - a musical romantic comedy with magical realist touches - was a top 10 finalist in the TWENTIETH ANNUAL AMERICAN ZOETROPE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION (Francis Ford Coppola, guest judge). Hanging Gardens was also Top 10 at the Nantucket Film Festival's Tony Cox Awards. It was a finalist at Cordillera, as well as at Flickers and the Maverick Movie Awards. Other nominations include The Beverly Hills Film Festival, The International Film Festival of Wales, the UK Film Festival, Evolution! Mallorca, Beyond the Curve, Sedona, and at Art of Brooklyn where her 2021 short, Inevitability, also won the award for Outstanding Editing. Zoe's feature screenplay, My World At Night, was among the Top 100 Dramas in 2020's International Screenwriters' Association Table Read My Screenplay Contest.
Zoë is currently in development for The Weather Just Got Sexy, a madcap, 90 minute coming-of-age, rock 'n roll comedy about a young poetry major who bumbles ass-backwards into a journey of self-discovery when he and a friend take summer jobs at a vaguely sadistic rock star's seaside boutique hotel. The Weather Just Got Sexy won Best International Feature Screenplay in Amsterdam, was a semi-finalist at Blue Cat, where it was called "a lighter Mamet," and as of December 2023, the script is a finalist in both Flickers Rhode Island and VisionFest.
When she is not making films, Zoë has a myriad of delightful occupations. She and the multi-awarded songwriter Ian Dench of EMF collaborated on 15 songs for a forthcoming album in 2024, Lost In London, and her graphic novel, Low Fidelity, on the foibles of dating in London is currently in the works. Zoë was the opening guest lecturer for the incoming class at London Screen Academy in September 2023.
After receiving her BFA in gag manga from Kyoto Seika University, the distinguished center for manga and anime in Japan, Zoë, a tremendous fan of British film, decided to follow in the footsteps of Stanley Kubrick, setting off to make movies in the UK. In 2022, after a Covid-infused year at London Film School, she left school to make her second not-so-short film, We Are Bleach, starring Zachary Goldman and Sonnei Garces. At the suggestion of French director Arthur Joffé, Zoë took on the film's third lead, playing the mysterious April.
We Are Bleach (2022), shot in London's most iconic clubs, is a vibrant, music-driven film about two pansexual punk rockers, that immediately garnered Best Indie Short and Best LGBT+ awards in Amsterdam and London respectively, the minute it hit the festival circuit. "Reminiscent of a young Todd Haynes," We Are Bleach received an Audience Choice award in New York, an Emerging Talent Award in London and then another Best LGBTQ award in Hollywood. Bleach was an official selection at several festivals in the US and Europe including the Montauk Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival, the Berlin TV Series Festival and the Queenshead Mini-Fringe Film Festival in London, among others.
A quirky and beguiling writer, Zoë's unproduced, feature-length screenplay, Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky (2021) - a musical romantic comedy with magical realist touches - was a top 10 finalist in the TWENTIETH ANNUAL AMERICAN ZOETROPE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION (Francis Ford Coppola, guest judge). Hanging Gardens was also Top 10 at the Nantucket Film Festival's Tony Cox Awards. It was a finalist at Cordillera, as well as at Flickers and the Maverick Movie Awards. Other nominations include The Beverly Hills Film Festival, The International Film Festival of Wales, the UK Film Festival, Evolution! Mallorca, Beyond the Curve, Sedona, and at Art of Brooklyn where her 2021 short, Inevitability, also won the award for Outstanding Editing. Zoe's feature screenplay, My World At Night, was among the Top 100 Dramas in 2020's International Screenwriters' Association Table Read My Screenplay Contest.
Zoë is currently in development for The Weather Just Got Sexy, a madcap, 90 minute coming-of-age, rock 'n roll comedy about a young poetry major who bumbles ass-backwards into a journey of self-discovery when he and a friend take summer jobs at a vaguely sadistic rock star's seaside boutique hotel. The Weather Just Got Sexy won Best International Feature Screenplay in Amsterdam, was a semi-finalist at Blue Cat, where it was called "a lighter Mamet," and as of December 2023, the script is a finalist in both Flickers Rhode Island and VisionFest.
When she is not making films, Zoë has a myriad of delightful occupations. She and the multi-awarded songwriter Ian Dench of EMF collaborated on 15 songs for a forthcoming album in 2024, Lost In London, and her graphic novel, Low Fidelity, on the foibles of dating in London is currently in the works. Zoë was the opening guest lecturer for the incoming class at London Screen Academy in September 2023.