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 worked as an associate editor on Terrence Malick's upcoming picture The Way of the Wind (2020) under the supervision of editor Joe Gleason; did 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… she is, not-so-surprisingly, drawn to stories about characters at odds with their world. Her comedies explore the paradox of identity, community, and belonging through female-identifying protagonists.
In her spare time, she acts as an aspiring hype woman for puppies everywhere (but especially in Vancouver, where she lives with her partner and wiggly-butted Springer Spaniel, Goose).
