Sofie Somoroff
Directing
Biography
Sofie is a director based in Los Angeles, but is undeniably from New York. She strives to uncover the messiness of womanhood, delve deep into feminine taboos, and explore everything she grew up being told to hide in her modern-orthodox Jewish upbringing. Recent directing credits include a series of musicals about living in Los Angeles: MY FIRST NIGHT IN LOS ANGELES, which tells the story of 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; as well as an upcoming horror short, LOVE IS A FIRE, about an acidic yeast infection. She likes to say she’s going through filmmaker puberty. Her work’s been recognized by the New York State Senate, where she was honored as a Woman of Distinction.
Known For
An anguished star hits his breaking point when a young journalist investigates his complicity in a scandal.
No Comment
After an unbearably creepy negotiation with some skeevy car dudes, a mechanic has to fight off a demonic monster inhabiting her dream 1978 Camaro.
Ride Baby Ride
The woman wonders what her neighbors are doing to deserve so many gifts from the gods. Stone blessings pile up on their altar while the woman receives so few. She has offered those same gods her food, time, and love. What more do they want? Do they want sex? Or something more? Perhaps a bit of flesh?
Offerings
A very hungry woman tells a pizza delivery guy she can't pay for the pizza she ordered. But can the sex she offers instead of currency possibly equate to the true value of a pizza? Is there anything that can be worthy of pizza, aside from what the market has decided? Together the two decide that their only option is to become the pizza object themselves, to make each other into pizza, in order to become free.
Make Me a Pizza
A couple confronts their challenges with intimacy, exacerbated by a toxic yeast infection.
Love is a Fire
A conman works his way into a lonely woman's home by posing as her long lost son.
Only Strangers Sleep in My Bed
In a Home for unwed mothers in 1962, a pregnant girl tries to save her friend’s memories in order to save their friendship.
Cut
A seamstress tries to make her grandmother’s impossibly-narrow-waisted-heirloom dress fit. After it refuses to be altered, visions of her grandmother encourage her to alter herself instead.