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Zoe Eisenberg

Zoe Eisenberg

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Biography

Zoe Eisenberg is an American filmmaker, writer and circus producer. Zoë creates stories and spaces in and about her home on Hawai’i island. Her work has been supported by Tribeca Studios and Netflix, and has played on PBS, Hawaiian Airlines, and theatrically across Hawai’i. Her solo debut feature film CHAPERONE was premiered in the Slamdance 2024 film festival. Zoë is the co-founder of Aerial Arts Hawai’i, an aerial circus performing arts company and training space in downtown Hilo, through which she has produced experiential circus concepts for clients like Benefit Cosmetics, Red Bull and Coors. Zoë’s debut novel, SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, will be published in February 2024 by MIRA/HarperCollins.

Known For

Chaperone
6.0

Set in rural Hawai’i and featuring an entirely AANHPI cast, Chaperone follows Misha, an unambitious 29-year-old woman who finds a dangerous acceptance in a bright 18-year-old athlete who mistakes her for a fellow high school student.

Chaperone

2025
Ala Moana Boys
9.0

Blamed for a crime they did not commit, five young men in 1930s Hawai’i must consider their futures and their families as they weigh the consequences of taking action.

Ala Moana Boys

2022
Inheritance
7.4

At dawn, Kelsey Akioka hikes out onto the Kalapana lava fields with a camera in hand and 80 lbs of gear on his back. We observe his methodical photography process amid one of nature’s most beautiful and chaotic events. Under the shade of a pop-up tent, he sells these photos at a small makeshift marketplace to apathetic tourists. By the end of the day, Kelsey returns home, exhausted and worn, to his son and elderly father. When he learns his friend is sacrificing his passion and moving away from home to pursue a better life for his family, Kelsey begins to question his own choices. As his frustrations spill into his home life, Kelsey must confront the turmoil stirring within him.

Inheritance

2022
Throuple
4.3

A conflicted young couple, a poly amorous trio trying to dig a hole, and a mysterious recluse spin a tale of love, murder and madness.

Throuple

2015
Stoke
N/A

A struggling tourist hires two wannabe tour guides to take her to an active volcano.

Stoke

2019
Racket
N/A

When professional circus clown Lo rage-dumps her performing partner moments before a packed show, she finds herself improvising a solo act with a tennis racket.

Racket

2022
Aloha From Lavaland
N/A

Explores what it really means to live in such an unpredictable paradise, and what the incident can teach the rest of the world about community, sustainability, harmony, and aloha.

Aloha From Lavaland

2016
Cashback
N/A

On her last night of work, a pregnant theater manager discovers a bag of cash under a seat and must decide what to do with it.

Cashback

2021
Bury It
N/A

Hawaii, 1977: Vic and Melvin are dropped off by their older brother in a rural Hawaii forest with an undisclosed task that no one seems enthusiastic about. As their brother’s pickup rumbles away leaving them utterly alone, they reluctantly begin their trek with an unopened pack and a shovel. Along the way they discuss the possibility of living in the wild, that is until the wild suddenly pays them a visit. Eventually, they reach their destination and carry out the unpleasant task they were sent to do. With the deed now behind them, it seems there are now more questions than answers and the boys sense that what they’ve experienced may haunt them for a long time to come.

Bury It

2022
The Bone of a Whale
N/A

The lives of two beach drifters are interrupted by the discovery of a mysterious bone.

The Bone of a Whale

2016