Zoe Mitchell
WRITER • PRODUCER
Pursues stories about the overlooked one, the one searching for their voice, the one trying to find their place in the world. To understand the outcast is to understand ourselves.
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Zoe Mitchell is an American screenwriter and producer. She wrote, produced, and directed her debut dramatic short film, BERNADETTE (2020), which received the Spirit Award from MINT Film Festival as well as Best Editing from the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France.
Under Scattamooch Productions, her feature length film, GRASSLAND (2024), is now streaming on Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, Tubi, Roku, and more. She is co-writer and executive producer on another Scattamooch Productions film, PAPER PLANE, that will have its national premier at the Santa Fe Film Festival this year.
Her productions have won and been recognized by organizations such as Austin Film Festival, Manhattan Film Festival, WeScreenplay, Web Series Festival Global, Lift-Off Global Network, and Indie Short Fest.
Mitchell was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated in 2016 from Berklee College of Music. She was also a masters in screenwriting candidate at ElCAR Film and Television school in Paris, France in 2018. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California where she continues to hone her craft and watch endless British TV.
Influences include: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Michaela Coel, Donald Glover, Billy Wilder, David Sedaris, and JD Salinger.
Film & Series
Paper Plane
An ailing mother confronts her deteriorating health and her inability to care for her troubled
Charleston
Jo, a mixed-race outcast who finds pleasure in solitude, must face the pressures of societal expectation and put herself in the deep-end of her dueling cultures.
Grassland
After the death of her mother, an urbanized twenty-year-old journeys to a cattle ranch in search of answers
about her past and future.
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Inner Harbor
Delphi, a Columbia journalism graduate with great plans for her future, struggles to keep her alcoholic mother, her apathetic sister, and her new dead-end job in line after losing a prestigious position at the D.C. Post.
AutoMotion
Frankie, a self-proclaimed introvert, moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of becoming an auto mechanic.
Bernadette
A young girl questions what it means to be an adult after an incident with a local store clerk.
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