about

Zandashé Brown is a New Orleans based writer/director born-and-bred in and inspired by southern Louisiana. Her work raises a Black femme lens to the tradition of Southern Gothic Horror by exploring the axis of self-excavation, spirituality, and lived experience in the American South.

Her latest short film, BENEDICTION, was a finalist for the 2020 Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program. Zandashé is a 2022 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and Directors Lab fellow for her feature-in-development, THE MATRIARCH. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2022.

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I am the eldest of Orelia Northern’s eighteen grandchildren; a child of Rosedale, Louisiana and of the tribe of women there who raised me. I credit them for my deep affection for tradition, memory, and the southern story.

My storytelling praxis is rooted in spiritual catharsis and the process of self-excavation. But I laugh a lot, too.