Zoé Salicrup Junco

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Zoé Salicrup Junco is an award-winning writer and director passionate about telling female-led stories. Her short film MARISOL, about an undocumented mother in NYC risking exposure to save her family, won the HuffPost Social Impact Award in 2020 and was acquired by HBO. Her NYU Tisch thesis film, GABI, an unfiltered look at life as an unconventional woman in a small Puerto Rican town, screened at Tribeca, Palm Springs, and Clermont-Ferrand, earning the King Screenwriting Award, Wasserman Directing Award, National Board of Review Student Grant, and a spot on The Independent Magazine’s “Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch.” Her third short, MARÍA, a psychological thriller exploring mental health challenges in underserved communities, aired on PBS Film Festival. Zoé recently completed her MFA in Screenwriting at Columbia University, receiving the Bobby Kox Screenwriting Scholarship for her commitment to elevating underrepresented voices.

In addition to her narrative work, Zoé directs commercial content featuring artists such as Doja Cat, Lil Nas X, and Raja Kumari, as well as film and TV stars including Mark Wahlberg, Tom Holland, Pedro Pascal, Hailey Steinfeld, and Anthony Anderson. She has directed for brands including the NFL, Amazon, Sony, Bausch & Lomb, M&M’s, Herschel, HBO, and PwC. In 2024 and 2025, she won a Webby Award for Best Video Series for Sony’s Creator to Creator and is currently directing a YouTube series for the NFL and Fortnite.

Zoé is a Cinefestival/Sundance Latino Screenwriters Project Fellow and participated in the Sundance Women’s Financing Intensive and the Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop for Artists. She is an active member of the New York Women in Film & Television Organization and the Pano Network, and is currently based in New York City.