Sophy Romvari
Sophy Romvari | |
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 Romvari in 2018 | |
| Born | 1990 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
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Sophy Romvari (born 1990) is a Canadian film director, writer, and actress.[1] She attracted widespread acclaim for her short film , 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]
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]
, 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 | 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[]
- ^ Justine Smith (February 19, 2021). "A Filmmaker Grapples with the Loss of Her Brothers Through Documentary". Hyperallergic.
- ^ a b c Barry Hertz, "Canadian short filmmakers play the long game". The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2020.
- ^ a b "Raw Cooked: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Sophy Romvari's "Still Processing"". MUBI. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ^ a b Norman Wilner (April 24, 2018). "Hot Docs review: Pumpkin Movie". Now.
- ^ a b Norman Wilner (August 27, 2018). "10 Canadian short films to watch at TIFF 2018". Now.
- ^ Pat Mullen, "Now Streaming: ‘In Dog Years’". Point of View, April 12, 2019.
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