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 FREE, written in collaboration with the multi-awarded Ian Dench of EMF, releases in March 2024 as part of an album, Lost in London. And her graphic novel, Low Fidelity, on the foibles of dating in London, is currently in the works. A dedicated mentor to younger filmmakers, Zoë was the opening guest lecturer for 2023’s incoming class at London Screen Academy.

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