Sophie Barthes

Born in France, Sophie Barthes grew up in the Middle East and South America. A Columbia University graduate, Sophie co-directed the short film Snowblink with cinematographer Andrij Parekh and a Unicef documentary in Yemen on women literacy programs. Both Happiness and Cold Souls, her feature-length screenplay, won the NYSCA Individual Artists Grants and the Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay at the Nantucket Film Festival. Sophie completed her residency at the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony and the January ‘07 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. She just completed the June ‘07 Sundance Directors Lab with Cold Souls, to be produced by Touchy Feely Films and Journeyman Pictures. —Lunafest