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Sophie Farkas Bolla is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted for her work on the films P.S. Jerusalem , for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, [1] and The Gig Is Up , for which she was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. [2]

Her other editing credits have included the films Antoine , Angry Inuk , Roads in February (Les Routes en février) and Beans .

She has also directed the short films Les chroniques de l'autre (2009), Istvan et la truite à fourrure (2013) and When Monsters Were Real (2016). In 2023, she released her debut feature film Adventures in the Land of Asha (Jules au pays d'Asha). [3]

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