Sophie Barthes

Sophie was born in France. She grew up in the Middle East and in South America (Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela). Sophie moved to New York in 2000 where she attended Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts Film Division and the Graduate School of International and Public Affairs for a joint curriculum in international affairs and film. She graduated in 2003 after writing and directing two documentaries, including a twenty-minute documentary shot in Yemen on the UNICEF education and health programs for women. Sophie wrote and co-directed the short film Snowblink with cinematographer Andrij Parekh, shot in Ukraine in 35mm, which won Best Director at Texas Film Festival 2005, and Best Short at the San Francisco Women Film Festival and was in the official competition at Tribeca, Stonybrook Staller Center for the Arts, Nantucket, Boston, Denver, Telluride, Hamptons and various international film festivals.

She wrote and directed the short film Happiness which won the Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay in a short film. She is currently working on the feature-length screenplay Cold Souls, which takes place in New York and Russia. Cold Souls won the Nantucket Film Festival Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Feature Screenplay.