Sophy Romvari

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Sophy Romvari
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Romvari in 2018
Born (1990-10-20) October 20, 1990 (age 33)
Occupations
  • Director
  • writer
  • actress
Years active2013–present
Notable work Still Processing

Sophy Romvari (born October 20, 1990) [lower-alpha 1] [1] is a Canadian film director, writer, and actress. [2] She attracted widespread acclaim for her short film Still Processing (2020). [3] The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and was later released online by Mubi. [4]

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A collection of Romvari's short films, including Still Processing, were subsequently released by The Criterion Collection on their streaming platform in 2022. [5] [6]

Her other notable films include Pumpkin Movie, which screened at the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and Norman/Norman, which screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Her work has screened at film festivals internationally, such as at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, Indie Memphis, and the True/False Film Festival. [7] [8]

Career

Romvari began making films in the mid-2010s, around 2013, while in film school. In 2017, Romvari's short documentary film Pumpkin Movie premiered at True/False Film Festival and screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest. [7] In 2018, her short Norman Norman premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. [8]

Romvari also directed In Dog Years (2019), a short documentary for CBC Short Docs. [9] The following year, her short documentary Remembrance of József Romvári (2020), about her grandfather who was a production designer in the Hungarian film industry, was included as a DVD special feature for three films by Hungarian director István Szabó, and distributed by Kino Lorber. [10] [11]

Still Processing , Romvari's thesis film from York University, attracted widespread critical acclaim and premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. [3] It was later released online by Mubi in 2021. [4]

A collection of Romvari's short films, including Still Processing, were subsequently released by The Criterion Collection on their streaming platform in 2022. [5] [6]

Her 2022 short film, It's What Each Person Needs, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, marking her third short film to premiere at the festival after Norman/Norman in 2018 and Still Processing in 2020, and was called a "stunning analysis on the foundations of identity." [12] [13]

Filmography

YearTitleContributionNote
2016Nine BehindWriter/Director/ProducerShort film
2016Let Your Heart Be LightCo-writer/Co-director with Deragh Campbell Short film
2017Pumpkin MovieWriter/Director/ProducerShort film
2017It's HimWriter/Director/ProducerShort film
2018Norman NormanWriter/Director/ProducerDocumentary short
2018Grandma's HouseWriter/Director/ProducerDocumentary short
2019In Dog YearsWriter/Director/ProducerDocumentary short
2020Some Kind of ConnectionCo-writer/Co-director with Mike ThornDocumentary short
2020 Still Processing Writer/Director/ProducerDocumentary short
2020 Oh, to Realize Writer/Director/ProducerDocumentary short
2022It's What Each Person NeedsShort

Acting roles

Notes

  1. Romvari mentions her age as two years old in 1992 in her short film Still Processing.

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