Zoë Greenbaum
- Director
- Writer
- Art Department
Zoë Greenbaum is a multi award-winning, tremendously imaginative, London-based writer-director. Zoë’s unique filmmaking draws on her deeply artistic background as an accomplished painter, manga artist, graphic novelist, and musician.
Her magical-realist, musical comedy screenplay, Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky, the story of a middle-aged married couple who share a collective consciousness, was a Top 10 finalist in Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, as well as in Nantucket’s prestigious Tony Cox Awards. Her hilarious screenplay, The Weather Just Got Sexy, with its brilliantly biting, laugh-out-loud dialogue, catapults a coming-of-age buddy comedy, in which a spoiled young poet overcomes his sense of failure through retail therapy at Gucci, into a beachfront rock concert and nostalgia synchronized swimming showcase at a run-down British seaside town. Internationally awarded and compared to the work of David Mamet, Sexy has been crowned Most Innovative Screenplay, Best Comedy Screenplay, Best International Feature Screenplay, among a host of other plaudits.
Zoë’s 24 minute short, We Are Bleach - "Reminiscent of a young Todd Haynes" - was shot in early 2022, immediately after she completed one year at London Film School. Bleach, the story of an imaginary band, dives breathlessly into Camden’s rock ‘n roll underground, turning a sharp eye on the toxic relationship between two young, pansexual punk rockers. Honest, satirical, alternately darkly comic and scathing, We Are Bleach speaks with a young voice to a young audience; an audience that very rarely sees itself portrayed on the screen by one of its own. Prior to Bleach’s double wins in festivals in London and Amsterdam the same day in April 2022, Bleach was enthusiastically received by an industry audience in a private premiere at MPC Soho where encouragement was high to develop Bleach into either a feature or a series.
In total, Zoë has made four award-winning shorts. The most recent, Feel Nothing Inc, is a story of contrasts: of disconnection, alienation, and dissatisfaction, and of the strange beauty implicit in each. The city shifts ruthlessly as dialogue and eccentric interludes encapsulate the displacement of its protagonists. Steeped in magic realism and experimental visual storytelling, this - Zoë’s fourth short film - turns its eye on an out-of-kilter 21st Century.
Beautifully shot by Graeme Dunn, the film introduces two unknown and talented young actors whose touching performances are a testament to Ms. Greenbaum’s gifts as a director.
"The visual atmosphere, lighting, editing, sound and music, everything about Feel Nothing Inc. is stunning and creative."
Her magical-realist, musical comedy screenplay, Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky, the story of a middle-aged married couple who share a collective consciousness, was a Top 10 finalist in Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, as well as in Nantucket’s prestigious Tony Cox Awards. Her hilarious screenplay, The Weather Just Got Sexy, with its brilliantly biting, laugh-out-loud dialogue, catapults a coming-of-age buddy comedy, in which a spoiled young poet overcomes his sense of failure through retail therapy at Gucci, into a beachfront rock concert and nostalgia synchronized swimming showcase at a run-down British seaside town. Internationally awarded and compared to the work of David Mamet, Sexy has been crowned Most Innovative Screenplay, Best Comedy Screenplay, Best International Feature Screenplay, among a host of other plaudits.
Zoë’s 24 minute short, We Are Bleach - "Reminiscent of a young Todd Haynes" - was shot in early 2022, immediately after she completed one year at London Film School. Bleach, the story of an imaginary band, dives breathlessly into Camden’s rock ‘n roll underground, turning a sharp eye on the toxic relationship between two young, pansexual punk rockers. Honest, satirical, alternately darkly comic and scathing, We Are Bleach speaks with a young voice to a young audience; an audience that very rarely sees itself portrayed on the screen by one of its own. Prior to Bleach’s double wins in festivals in London and Amsterdam the same day in April 2022, Bleach was enthusiastically received by an industry audience in a private premiere at MPC Soho where encouragement was high to develop Bleach into either a feature or a series.
In total, Zoë has made four award-winning shorts. The most recent, Feel Nothing Inc, is a story of contrasts: of disconnection, alienation, and dissatisfaction, and of the strange beauty implicit in each. The city shifts ruthlessly as dialogue and eccentric interludes encapsulate the displacement of its protagonists. Steeped in magic realism and experimental visual storytelling, this - Zoë’s fourth short film - turns its eye on an out-of-kilter 21st Century.
Beautifully shot by Graeme Dunn, the film introduces two unknown and talented young actors whose touching performances are a testament to Ms. Greenbaum’s gifts as a director.
"The visual atmosphere, lighting, editing, sound and music, everything about Feel Nothing Inc. is stunning and creative."
- Arthur Joffe
