Sofia Garza-Barba
Directing
Biography
Sofía Garza-Barba is an eclectic Latinx multidisciplinary writer and director who’s genre-bending work is often described as fantastic, kitsch, and highly art driven. Some of her clients include Nickelodeon, Paramount, Universal Orlando, Sony amongst others. Her films have been appreciated in festivals like Fantasia, Rotterdam, SITGES, GIFF, Tribeca and Festival de Cannes, and have been recognized or awarded for their unique voice with colorful visual language. She’s a Ryan Murphy’s Half Initiative mentee, a Fellow Director of the CDDP Diversity Program, HBO’s Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today emerging director and a selected fellow for the LFI Inclusion Fellowship supported by NETFLIX. In 2024, her fantasy queer short film Peccadillo was nominated for an Imagen Award for best short. Sofia continues her path of telling stories that make people cry, laugh, scream or just simply feel alive.
Known For
Peccadillo tells the story of Lorenzo. An 18- year-old boy struggling to come out to his religious family of female tailors, who work day and night sewing the dresses he only dreams to wear. Unfortunately, the dream of fitting into one of these sparkly beauties and explore his sexuality lingers in the air, as through his Family’s eyes, being gay and wearing clothes opposite to someone’s sex, is a sin.
Peccadillo
LaLa has turned vegan as an act of love to Johnny, the love of her life. But after binging rare greenery at a flower shop to stop her everlasting hunger, she finds herself turning into a flesh-eating human plant, same night she’s expected to meet her lover’s vegan posse.
Efflorescence
On her 6th birthday, Libby receives a scary present.
Cakeman
The day after her 8th birthday, Jackie suspects that she is turning into a vampire by noticing her parents following new life protocols that forbid her to come out into the open. Confused by the behavior of her family, the girl creates her own survival plan due to lack of information about the real reason for the confinement; the covid 19 pandemic.
Soy un vampiro
Anita has been struggling to make friends in the neighborhood, but with her birthday coming up, she'll do anything to find someone to attend her party... even if it means going out of her comfort zone to invite a new creature who just moved in.