Zenzele is a filmmaker, editor, and interdisciplinary artist born in Texas, raised in
Georgia, with maternal/paternal grandparents from Alabama and Louisiana. As a narrative filmmaker,
she explores her family's generational connection to the American South through metaphor.
Zenzele is also a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow and 2023 SFFILM Rainin Grant recipient.
Her award-winning short films have screened at SXSW, Sundance, and MoMA, and been
acquired by Showtime. She is currently developing her debut feature, an expansion of her
Sundance-supported short film The South Is My Sister's Skin.
Zenzele's work as an editor is influenced by her early fascination with collage.
She currently works as a lead editor at Translation, LLC, cutting social and
broadcast advertising campaigns, and as a freelance editor for Goldcrest Films on long-form
podcast and documentary projects.
She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an
MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied as a Dean's Fellow in the
Graduate Film program.
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