Sophie makes stories about real people ~ and sometimes crustaceans ~ pushed to absurd extremes and told with a sharp visual eye, a dark humour and a taste for the macabre.
A natural born storyteller like a moth to a flame, Sophie has been obsessed with making films since she was eight. After watching Orlando at fourteen, she decided to peruse filmmaking seriously. It’s her life’s passion.
A 2012 graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, her honours film The Zoo screened at MIFF Accelerator and Flickerfest before airing on ABC's The Screening Room and iView. She's since made the shorts Kaleidoscope (Film Finances Australasia Under the Radar Award), John (VCA Margaret Lawrence Social Justice Scholarship), 1000 Cigarettes and The Cosmonaut, alongside production design credits including the APDG-nominated Tanglewood.
For over a decade, Sophie worked as a production and costume designer, and is now channeling everything she's learned in the art and costume departments building other people's worlds, into her own; strange, funny, and unmistakably hers.
Her web series Prawn Bits, co-created with Oliver Coleman, is available on Grouse House TV, and is her first launch into episodic comedy.
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