DIRECTORS BIO
Sofie Somoroff is a filmmaker from NYC and currently based in LA. Her most recent short film, LOVE IS A FIRE, about an acidic yeast infection, won Best Midnight Short at both FilmQuest and Nightmares Film Festival (“The Cannes of Horror” - iHorror), and screened in the Academy Award Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival. Prior to that, she made a series of musicals about living in Los Angeles: MY FIRST NIGHT IN LOS ANGELES, about a girl learning self-love while crashing in her friend’s living room, and MY WORST NIGHT IN LOS ANGELES, about needing to poop while on a Hinge date. Her undergraduate film thesis, CUT, is a sci-fi retelling of her grandmother's experiences in a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s, and was released on Dust last year in honor of Women's History Month.