Enid Zentelis is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and podcast creator. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, and awards at New York Film Festival, Tribeca, and winner of Best Director prize at Sonoma FF. Features include: Evergreen, Sundance, Dramatic Competition, and Bottled Up, produced by Olympus Pictures and nominated for The Nora Ephron Prize at Tribeca Film Festival.
Her original podcast series tells the true story of how her grandmother spied for Allies during WWII, while simultaneously surviving the Holocaust, How My Grandmother Won World War II– premiered on top 100 history podcast charts around the world in early 2021 and was recommended by The Guardian, as well as featured in The New York Post, The Daily Beast, Talkhouse, NBC LX and NY1. It was selected for IFP/The Gotham’s inaugural Audio Hub and Film London’s invite-only IP market, UPstream— where it sold to Red Arrow Studio’s, Kinetic Content to develop into a scripted series.
Her first film, an experimental documentary, Granny was an Outlaw, chronicles her family’s rescue by Raoul Wallenberg during the Holocaust, and streams on the American Holocaust Museum site as part of its permanent archive.
She’s a fellow of the Sundance Institute, a graduate of Hampshire College, The Graduate Film Program at New York University. She is a Professor of Filmmaking and Feminist Film Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.