FILM UPDATES:
FILMMAKER MAGAZINE 2023
SFFILM RAININ GRANT 2024
PRESS:
SHOWTIME “Spotlights” trailer 2022
VARIETY 2022
NYU Tisch Feature 2022
Rainbow Award 2021
Sundance Ignite Fellowship 2021
VARIETY
DEADLINE
DESIGN / PHOTO WORK:
Gif Collage
Adobe x Vanity Fair
CONTACT:
info@zenzeleojore.com
Zenzele (b. 1994, Houston, Texas) is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist
whose work centers on the unearthing of personal and familial memory,
reflecting on what it means to grow up in a part of America that made her, but was never made for her.
Her film and photographic practice explore the intricacies of Black life in the American South, a place where the past and present seem to blur.
Drawing from her background as a collage artist and documentary photographer, Ojore fuses still and moving images to create vivid portraits
that intertwine Southern landscapes with the lives and memories of the Black people who inhabit them.
She is a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow and 2019 Sundance Horizon Award winner.
Her award-winning short films have screened at festivals and museums, including SXSW,
Sundance (Sundance Ignite), and MoMA, and have been broadcast through Showtime. In 2023, she was named an
SFFILM Rainin Grant recipient for her debut feature, The South is My Sister’s Skin.
She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018 and was a Dean Fellow at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
She currently lives in New York City, where she works as an editor at Translation LLC.
The clients she’s worked with included: WNBA, NBA, META, ALLY, Disney, Tic Tac, Adobe, Vanity Fair, McDonalds.
Also, here is a random photo of her hugging a glacier on the National Geographic.