Zoe Salnave

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About me

Originally from the East Bay Area, Zoë Alyce Salnave has worked in film and creative writing since she was 14 years old. Her passion for

filmmaking grew as a young documentarian producing narratives rooted in issues of diversity, community, sustainable living, and urban

rehabilitation. Her work has been recognized at film festivals across the world and she has won several awards for her documentary work with

urban development, community gardening programs, and raising awareness of youth initiatives in Berkeley and Oakland, California.



In 2010, Salnave won her highest recognition by receiving a Resolution Award from the State of California by Senators Loni Hancock and

Nancy Skinner for her work in documentary film and was honored with a private screening for the Obama family at the White House later that year. In 2015 she graduated from Mills College, a historic all women's college in Oakland with a B.A. in Creative Storytelling and Cultural Perspectives with an emphasis in Contemporary Poetry, Cinema Literacy, and Afro-Caribbean Cultural Studies.



Besides her work in film, Salnave has worked with youth in professional development internships and video production houses with programming

geared towards high school aged students. Her work with students in professional development was often with at risk youth in Oakland and San Francisco through the Sweeney Camp and Youth Radio programs based in the Bay Area. She has also worked with young artists

development and education through Girls, Inc., the Yerba Buena Arts Center of San Francisco, and the Bay Area Video Coalition teaching a

culmination of video production, studio photography, graphic design, and broadcast journalism. She was also instrumental to the expansion of the Bay Area based program Camp Reel Stories to Los Angeles - an intensive filmmaking program geared towards young budding female creatives.



She was accepted to the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts in 2016 and has since been honing her craft in Writing,

Directing, and Producing narrative film while earning her Masters in Los Angeles. She will be a recipient of a MFA in Film and Television

Production in May 2019. Salnave explores the genres of drama, comedy, and the combination of the two while telling stories from

underrepresented perspectives and communities. She is pursuing episodic television production and feature filmmaking at USC. Zoë is dedicated to storytelling that is diverse, inclusive, and progressive, using her experience and education surrounding cultural studies and poetic storytelling.

She is invested in showcasing people in real-life situations that reflect the nuance and complexity of our world while combining the timelessness

of comedy and real-stakes drama through a diverse lens with strong female characters at the center.

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Producer
Job Titles	Post-Production Management / Support, Writer, Director, Producer, Line Producer, Production Assistant (PA), 1st AD (Assistant Director), Production Coordinator, Production Support, Videographer, Marketing / PR, Casting Assistant, Post Production Assistant, Post Production Coordinator
Years in industry	6+ years