Stasis is not a word that’s ever been used to describe London-based, American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician Zoë Greenbaum.  Just returned from Japan where her most recent short film, Feel Nothing Inc, won the grand prize in fiction, Zoë quickly found herself on the road again  - this time in France -  with An Unmarried Woman,  a series of 18 watercolors in the form of an intimate diary transforming the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards into an out-of-control, alcoholic divorcée, Keira Richard.   As she prepared to bring Keira to Greece for Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market in Hydra, Zoë was simultaneously prepping a solo show for September at IFAC in New York, working on Low Fidelity  - her graphic novel on the foibles of dating in the UK, rehearsing in London with her new band, One Hour Diner, while meeting with potential partners for her debut feature, My World at Night.  

Trained as a manga artist in Japan, Zoë did her Masters in filmmaking at London Film School before going on to make several award-winning short films.  A Top 10 finalist in Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, as well as in Nantucket’s Tony Cox Awards, Zoë has three feature screenplays in development. 

93-page screenplay “Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky,” 2021

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.

Top 10 Feature Screenplays, Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope, 2023

Top 10 Feature Length Screenplays, Nantucket Film Festival Tony Cox Award, 2022

Finalist, Catalina Film Festival, 2024

Finalist, Flickers Road Island, 2022

Finalist, Cordillera International Film Festival, 2022

Honorable Mention: The Art of Brooklyn, 2021

Quarter-finalist: Sedona International Film Festival, 2021

Nominee: Maverick Movie Awards, 2021

Official Selection: International Film Festival of Wales Daffodil List, 2021

Official Selection: UK Film Festival, 2021

Semi-Finalist: Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, 2021

Official Selection: Beyond the Curve Film Festival, Paris, 2021

Official Selection: Georgia Shorts Film Festival, USA, 2021

91-page screenplay “The Weather Just Got Sexy,” 2023

An insecure poetry major bumbles ass backwards into a journey of self-discovery when he takes a summer job at a rock band's seaside hotel -- and is then forced to compete in synchronized swimming.

Winner, Most Innovative Screenplay: City of Angels Film Festival, 2025

Winner, Best Comedy Screenplay: Berlin International Screenwriting Festival, 2025

Winner, Best Comedy Screenplay: Berlin Independent Film Festival, 2024

Winner, Best International Screenplay: New Renaissance Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2023

Finalist: Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2023

2nd Place: Visionfest Screenwriting Competition, 2023

Semi-Finalist: BlueCat Screenplay Competition, 2023

Quarter-Finalist: Cordillera International Film Festival, 2024

Quarter-Finalist: Sedona International Film Festival, 2023

88-page screenplay “My World At Night,” 2024

When a brilliant, young art specialist comes to London to curate her beloved mentor’s first post-mortem retrospective, she quickly finds herself in a distressing love triangle, inextricably bound by a mysterious painting and a cafe that is open only in the middle of the night.

Finalist, Cordillera International Film Festival, 2024

Beverly Hills Film Festival, 2025

23 minute film We Are Bleach, 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

Produced by Poodle Owl Productions, Producer Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène

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

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

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

Official Selection, Montauk Film Festival, 2022

Berlin TV Series Festival, Short Films Corner, 2022

4 minute film Please Be Kind, 2024

Produced by Poodle Owl Productions, Producer Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène

Premiere: Nightspiece Film Festival at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Honorable Mention: New Renaissance Film Festival, London

Official Selection: Sky Arts Film Festival, Kentucky

12 minute film Feel Nothing Inc, 2025

Produced by Poodle Owl Productions, Producer Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène

Premiere: Universal Film Festival Samothraki, winner, Best Director, 2025

London Independent Film Festival, 2025

Directorial debut: 24 minute film Inevitability, 2021

Produced by Poodle Owl Productions, Producer Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène

Winner, Outstanding Editing: The Art of Brooklyn, 2021

Honorable Mention: New Wave Short Film Festival, Munich, 2021

Finalist: Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, Paris, 2021

Semi-Finalist: Madrid Film Awards, 2021

FLICKFAIR Film Festival, 2022

Other Film work

2026 Jury Samothraki Universal Film Festival

Music Video: Shy by AM Shanley, 2026

Music Video: Parachutes by Enfant, 2025

Music Video: 2 Ladiez by Tony Westcliff (Cinematography, Co-Directed with Tony Westcliff), 2024

Writer/Director: Trip the Bite Fantastic (3 minute film), 2021

Writer/Director: The Moon & Back (3 minute musical film), 2020

2024 Script reader for Female Voices Rock Film Festival, NYC

Publications

Art featured in Journals of Love and Literature issue 3, Australia, 2026

Art featured in Hush Mag issue 1, London, 2026

Art featured in Agenda Collective Magazine issue 2, Brighton, 2025

Art featured in Grand Electric Zine issue 4, Manchester, 2025

Cover and supplementary illustrations, Seika University Gag Manga Department Graduation Works Digest, 2019

Illustration featured in Average Art Magazine issue 20, 2018 

Illustration featured in A5 Magazine issue 12, 2018

Promotional illustration for The Time In Children's Arts Initiative DreamFest with Alice Coote, Joyce DiDonato and Bryan Wagorn, 2018

Illustration featured in Wotisart Magazine issue 13, 2018

Illustrations featured in MIM Magazine, issue 1, 2017

Illustration for promotional materials and website for Puccini with Passion, private charity event featuring opera stars Ailyn Perez & Brian Jagde, 2017

Cover illustration for “Happiness is Luxury” Zine, vol. 1, 2015

Illustration featured in Hell Bitches 666 Zine, vol. 3, 2015

Illustration featured in Hell Bitches 666 Zine, vol. 2, 2014

Illustrations for Metropolis by Martine Bellen, from the poetry collection Wabac Machine (Furniture Press Books), 2013

Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga

Low Fidelity, ongoing graphic novel, 2023-present

52 page graphic novel “London Michael Magnolia,” 2018

32 page manga, “Llambada!!” 2018

16 page manga “Yasagure Club,” 2018

4 page manga “Ponko’s Situation,” 2018

Comic strips “Truly, Madly, Deeply…Allergic” and “The Sphinxes of Philosopher’s Path: The Return of Dr. Meowsmer,” 2018

Comic strip “The Sphinxes of Philosopher’s Path,” 2017

4 page manga “An Idol Waxing Philosophical,” 2015

6 page manga “Scrambled Flowers,” 2015

8 page manga “Alright, I’m a Praying Mantis Can We Get This Done?,” 2015

8 page manga “The Dream House,” 2015

Comic strip “Love & Secrets” parts 1&2, 2015

8 page manga “Today’s Strawberry is Tomorrow’s Jam,” 2014

8 page manga “Dreams of Naïs,” 2014 

8 page manga “Fashion Advice for Loose Men,” 2014 

17 page English language manga “Calcium,” 2013 
9 page art comic “The Valhalla of Harpootle” (private collection of Susan & Marvin Numeroff), 2013

8 page art comic “Jazz Musician,” 2012

17 page English language manga “Slow Motion,” 2012

11 page art comic “Melisande,” 2011