Sophy Romvari

Sophy Romvari (born 1990) is a Canadian film director, writer, and actress.[1] She attracted widespread acclaim for her short film Still Processing, which documents her experience with grief following the deaths of her two older brothers.[2] The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and was later released online by Mubi.[3]

Sophy Romvari
Romvari in 2018
Born1990
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation
  • Director
  • writer
  • actress

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 also screened at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, Indie Memphis, and the True/False Film Festival.[4][5]

Career

In 2017, Romvari’s short documentary Pumpkin Movie premiered at True/False Film Festival and screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest.[4] In 2018, her short Norman Norman premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.[5]

Still Processing, Romvari’s thesis film from York University, documents her experience with grief following the deaths of her two older brothers.[2] The film attracted widespread critical acclaim and premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] It was later released online by Mubi.[3]

Romvari also directed In Dog Years (2019), a short documentary for CBC Short Docs.[6] 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.

Filmography
Year Title Contribution Note
2016 Nine Behind Writer/Director/Producer Short film
2016 Let Your Heart Be Light Co-writer/Co-director with Deragh Campbell Short film
2017 Pumpkin Movie Writer/Director/Producer Short film
2017 It's Him Writer/Director/Producer Short film
2018 Norman Norman Writer/Director/Producer Documentary short
2018 Grandma's House Writer/Director/Producer Documentary short
2019 In Dog Years Writer/Director/Producer Documentary short
2020 Some Kind of Connection Co-writer/Co-director with Mike Thorn Documentary short
2020 Still Processing Writer/Director/Producer Documentary short
2020 Oh, to Realize Writer/Director/Producer Documentary short

As actress
  • Let Your Heart Be Light (2016)
  • From Nine to Nine (2016)
  • Pumpkin Movie (2017)
  • Spice It Up (2018)
  • The Sunless Remembered (2018)
  • Preface to History (2019)
  • Tiger Eats a Baby (2020)

References
  1. Justine Smith (February 19, 2021). "A Filmmaker Grapples with the Loss of Her Brothers Through Documentary". Hyperallergic.
  2. Barry Hertz, "Canadian short filmmakers play the long game". The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2020.
  3. "Raw Cooked: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Sophy Romvari's "Still Processing"". MUBI. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
  4. Norman Wilner (April 24, 2018). "Hot Docs review: Pumpkin Movie". Now.
  5. Norman Wilner (August 27, 2018). "10 Canadian short films to watch at TIFF 2018". Now.
  6. Pat Mullen, "Now Streaming: ‘In Dog Years’". Point of View, April 12, 2019.
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