Zef Cota
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Zef Cota is an award winning filmmaker based in New York City. He is also the co-founder of Alphabet City Films. Zef released his debut feature, The Trouble, "an urban spaghetti western" set in the Bronx - released in 2019 on Amazon Prime and TubiTV. Zef won Best Director at AoF in 2018 for the film which also won the Audience Choice Award and Best Cinematography at Hollywood Dreamz. In 2022, he received Best Picture at La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival for 'Time is Eternal' for a fashion film he produced along with Dream Team Directors in L.A. starring Berite Labelle.
In the past he's worked as a Filmmaker for IBM, producing digital content for their research division in the field of Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence. In October 2017, ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) presented him along with four IBMers with the Best Brave New Idea Paper Award for a scientific paper that he co authored on their pioneering work on Artificial Intelligence in the creation of movie trailers. Zef is also on the board of the The Bronx Filmmakers collective, a non profit dedicated to further the education and development of Bronx based filmmakers.
In the past he's worked as a Filmmaker for IBM, producing digital content for their research division in the field of Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence. In October 2017, ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) presented him along with four IBMers with the Best Brave New Idea Paper Award for a scientific paper that he co authored on their pioneering work on Artificial Intelligence in the creation of movie trailers. Zef is also on the board of the The Bronx Filmmakers collective, a non profit dedicated to further the education and development of Bronx based filmmakers.
