Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky

Filmmaker Zoë Greenbaum is a writer/director, visual artist and singer/songwriter. After receiving a 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 she would follow in the footsteps of Stanley Kubrick and she set off to make movies in the UK. In 2022, after a Covid-infused year at London Film School, she made 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 third lead in Bleach, and the film went on to quickly win awards in both Europe and the US: Best Indie Short, Emerging Talent , Best LGBTQ+, as well an Audience Choice Award in New York. Bleach was also an official selection at several festivals including the Montauk Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival, the Berlin TV Series Festival and the Queenshead Mini-Fringe Film Festival, 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 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. And the script for We Are Bleach (2022) was a finalist at Beyond the Curve and a semifinalist in Hollywood Just 4 Shorts.

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. The screenplay won Best International Feature Screenplay in Amsterdam, was a semi-finalist at Blue Cat, where it was called “a lighter Mamet,” and it is currently a finalist in Flickers.

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 a 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 this past September.