Enid Zentelis is an award-winning director, writer, podcast creator and NYU professor.

Her feature films star Oscar and Emmy-winning actors, have premiered at top festivals including Sundance (Nominated for Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature) and Tribeca (Spotlight Selection) and are in worldwide distribution. Her short directing work for major music labels include albums which have topped Billboard Charts worldwide, been certified with Gold Disc, and sold over 8 million copies for multi-Grammy-winning talent, including WILCO and Eric Clapton among others. Her writing has appeared in The Daily Beast, The Lily, Now This, Talkhouse among other publications.

“How My Grandmother Won WWII,” Zentelis’ first podcast series, charted with audiences around the world and sold to major UK Studio, Red Arrow, and developed by Los Angeles TV production company, Kinetic Scripted, upon its international release. Zentelis was hired to develop and write a scripted series pilot. In 2025, Zentelis sold her book proposal based on the same podcast to Blackstone Publishing for a Spring 2027 release.

Highlights from some of Zentelis’ film work include: her first feature as screenwriter and director, “Evergreen,” nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, took home The Best Director prize at Sonoma Film Festival and screened at top tier festivals all over the world. Starring Golden Globe and Emmy- winner, Mary Kay Place, Cara Seymour, Oscar-nominee Bruce Davison, and Gary Farmer, “Evergreen” sold in a first-of-its-kind distribution deal at Sundance, becoming the first feature distributed digitally directly with an exhibitor and securing a nationwide release in AMC’s major theater chain across the country. Her feature as screenwriter and director, “Bottled Up,” was nominated for The Nora Ephron Prize at The Tribeca Film Festival and Seattle’s Best in Female Cinema Showcase, starring Oscar-winner Melissa Leo, Marin Ireland (Homeland) and Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade).

Some of Zentelis’ current works in development include a film “Tromba,” set in Corsica about a refugee’s unusual journey into the EU; “Latitudes,” a story about class warfare and climate change, and a novel, AIX, set in the South of France in the 1990s about an American au pair and an Algerian college student.

She is a fellow of the Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Producing Labs; an NBC-Universal Directing Fellow and an alum of NYU Graduate Film School. She has been a mentor and master teacher for The Gates Foundation Initiative on Gender Equity and Nigeria’s top filmmakers in Nollywood; for Sundance Co-Lab writers, screenwriting mentor for Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep’s The Writer’s Lab, panelist for New York Women in Film and TV, Fusion Festival and more. She was a recipient of The Edna St. Vincent Millay, Artist/Writers Residency. She is an Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of Film and TV, where she teaches directing, screenwriting and feminist film theory.