SOPHIA
SANTOS ENGLISH

Sophia Santos English (she/they) is a filmmaker, emerging writer, curator & digital alchemist based in ‘Vancouver, BC’ working on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Sophia is currently in the process of graduating from Simon Fraser University in 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Film Production Program. 

Sophia’s film work begins as an investigation into her Filipino heritage, dissonant archives and community memory. She questions how we can call upon the magic of the moving image to uncover the visible/invisible in the daily diasporic ecosystems. She draws connections to the land, body, sea, and family, as a foundational structure through which she frames her practice. Sophia is dedicated to cinema because of it’s emergent capacity for unraveling past narratives and generating new worlds.

Throughout her film studies, she has worked as a Production Designer and Stylist on projects such as Where the Wild Things Are BC Lions Commercial Dir. by Paul Wu and collaborated as a Writer for Dance, Dance, Dance for MAMM 18 Festival Dir. by Bianca Cheung. 

Her film work has been featured in the 2022 and 2023 Small File Film Festival. An international film festival that uplifts video art compressed to 2 MB and under in response to the material ramifications of HD streaming media. Her Music Video work for artist Haleluya Hailu draws upon her Production Design background. She has a playful eye towards world-building, aiming to create fantastical magic within her art direction.  Recent work has been featured in articles by CBC Music and Exclaim!.

Currently, Sophia is working at Gallery Gachet as the curatorial assistant and in production for her upcoming short film, Through the Flow of Summer Snow set to release at the end of 2024.