My Dead Friend Zoe (2025)
Director: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes Run Time: 101 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2025
Starring: Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Natalie Morales, Sonequa Martin-Green, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Country: United States
Language: English
“Sonequa Martin-Green Gives One of the Year’s Best Performances”
– Matt Donato, Collider
About the film:
Winner – Audience Award – SXSW Film Festival. Inspired by a true story, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran—thanks to the presence of her dead best friend from the Army—is at odds with her estranged Vietnam Veteran grandfather and her VA counselor.
About the filmmaker:
Kyle Hausmann-Stokes is an award-winning director and writer based in Los Angeles. He enlisted in the US Army a month before 9/11, served five years as a paratrooper and received the Bronze Star in Iraq. He used the G.I. Bill to graduate from USC film, after which he spent a decade directing commercials around the world for brands like Google, IBM, UPS, REI, US Air Force and Rocket Mortgage, etc.
He is the founder/owner of Blue Three Productions, a production company through which he’s written produced and directed dozens of campaigns about the military, veterans and mental health. He is the co-founder Veterans in Media & Entertainment, the largest professional veteran x entertainment industry organization in Hollywood, and his “Veterans For Gun Reform” PSA for #MarchForLives accrued over 40 million views in four days. His 2022 semi-autobiographical impact short MERITxZOE gained the support of three of the largest veteran nonprofits in the country: The Mission Continues, Bob Woodruff Foundation and Everytown For Gun Safety. My Dead Friend Zoe (2025) is his first feature film.
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