Zoe Salnave

Professor Zoë Alyce Salnave is a Bay Area-based filmmaker, educator and storyteller whose work centers on memory, personal excavation and cultural exploration. Her research examines how stories are carried, inherited, retold and collectively reshaped across generations. She investigates the psychology of generational transference, communal narrative and diasporic memory, exploring how the act of remembering connects individuals to concepts of home, identity and cultural inheritance.

Her work extends these questions into film production, screenwriting, entertainment and poetic cinema. Films of hers have screened worldwide and earned recognition including a Resolution Award from the State of California for Humanitarian Work in Documentary Filmmaking.

Her professional experience spans television, branded content, and documentary filmmaking, with roles at IMAGINE Entertainment and Showtime, and creative partnerships with companies such as Google, Airbnb, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

CREDITS

Director, Voodoo Macbeth (Apple TV+)     

Producer, Couples Therapy, S3 (Showtime)

CURRENT PROJECTS

5 On It  |  Feature film

A feature film exploring music, trauma and healing through the lens of shared retelling. The project examines how multiple points of view and divergent accounts of lived experience converge to create dynamic narrative, and how the act of reclaiming one’s story becomes itself a form of healing.

Memory Lane: Essays on Motherhood, Mortality, and Creative Cultural Inheritance  |  Manuscript in progress