Sophia Loffreda is an Italian-Canadian writer/director and editor from Montréal, Québec. She has worked at the Cannes Film Festival; Just For Laughs Comedy Festival; UCB Del Close Marathon; Picture This Productions (Watchers of the North, Aboriginal People’s Network of Canada); OtisLucas (Pahokee); and Texas Crew Productions (Travel, Oxygen, Fox). Most recently, she has worked as an associate editor on Terrence Malick's upcoming picture The Way of the Wind (2020) under the supervision of editor Joe Gleason; done additional editing on Shouting Down Midnight (feature documentary by Gretchen Stoelje centering around reproductive rights in Texas and Wendy Davis’ 2013 filibuster, edited by Nina Vizcarrondo), and is currently working as an editor for Atomic Cartoons on Disney/Marvel’s animated TV show Spidey and His Amazing Friends.
With a BA in Journalism from Montréal’s Concordia University, she spent time as a reporter before transitioning to documentary films and then, ultimately, to her forever love: scripted content of the comedic variety. She has studied screenwriting at the New York Film Academy, improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and holds an MFA in Film and TV Production from the University of Texas at Austin.
Her short film, The Green, premiered at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and has since screened at over 20 festivals worldwide and competed as a pilot for series development at the New York Television Festival and Denver SeriesFest.
Growing up as a second-generation Italian, in a french-speaking city, in English-speaking Canada… her comedies is not-so-surprisingly drawn to stories about characters at odds with their world. Her comedies explore the ordinary moments that become extraordinary in our search for identity, acceptance, and belonging. More than anything, she aims to create under-explored narratives and protagonists for female-identifying viewers to better see their experiences represented on screen.
In her spare time, she acts as an aspiring hype woman for puppies everywhere (but especially in Vancouver, where she currently resides with her wild-child Collie mix, Cosmo).
