Throughout her career as a filmmaker, Zoe Cassavetes has excelled at highlighting the female experience with bracing openness.
In 2007's Broken English, she explored the complexities of a successful career woman played by Parker Posey who's painfully unlucky in love.
In 2015's Day Out of Days, Cassavetes—the daughter of filmmaker John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands—turned her lens on a 40-something actress struggling to reconcile her failing career with the things she's sacrificed for it. The movie starring Alexia Landeau and Melanie Griffith premiered at 42st Deauville American Film Festival.
In 2017's Junior, Zoe Cassavetes explores feminism through a teenager's eyes. Junior, starring Lucia Ribisi, Kristine Froseth, Amy Seimetz (Stranger things, Girlfriend experience), Eric Johnson, premiered at Rome Film Festival and was considered one of 10 best webseries 2017 by Indiewire.
