Sophy Romvari

Sophy Romvari
Romvari in 2018
Born	(1990-10-20) October 20, 1990 (age 34) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Occupations	Director writer actress
Years active	2013–present
Notable work	Still Processing

Sophy Romvari (born October 20, 1990)^[a][1] is a Canadian film director, writer, and actress.^[2] She attracted widespread acclaim for her short film Still Processing (2020).^[3] The film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and was later released online by Mubi.^[4]

A collection of Romvari's short films, including Still Processing, were subsequently released by The Criterion Collection on their streaming platform in 2022.^[5][6]

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 screened at film festivals internationally, such as at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, Indie Memphis, and the True/False Film Festival.^[7][8]

Career

Romvari began making films in the mid-2010s, around 2013, while in film school. In 2017, Romvari's short documentary film Pumpkin Movie premiered at True/False Film Festival and screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest.^[7] In 2018, her short Norman Norman premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.^[8]

Romvari also directed In Dog Years (2019), a short documentary for CBC Short Docs.^[9] 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.^[10][11]

Still Processing, Romvari's thesis film from York University, attracted widespread critical acclaim and premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.^[3] It was later released online by Mubi in 2021.^[4]

A collection of Romvari's short films, including Still Processing, were subsequently released by The Criterion Collection on their streaming platform in 2022.^[5][6]

Her 2022 short film, It's What Each Person Needs, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, marking her third short film to premiere at the festival after Norman/Norman in 2018 and Still Processing in 2020, and was called a "stunning analysis on the foundations of identity."^[12][13]

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
2022	It's What Each Person Needs		Short

Acting roles

• 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)

Notes

1. Romvari mentions her age as two years old in 1992 in her short film Still Processing.

References

1. "Today is my 30th birthday -- and I think it's the first time in my life I actually *feel* the age that I am...and it feels nice! ⚘". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
2. Justine Smith (February 19, 2021). "A Filmmaker Grapples with the Loss of Her Brothers Through Documentary". Hyperallergic.
3. Barry Hertz, "Canadian short filmmakers play the long game". The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2020.
4. "Raw Cooked: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Sophy Romvari's "Still Processing"". MUBI. 20 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
5. Loayza, Beatrice. "Working Memory: A Conversation with Sophy Romvari". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
6. Urbanek, Sydney. "Making movies helps Sophy Romvari trust her own memories". CBC Arts.
7. Norman Wilner (April 24, 2018). "Hot Docs review: Pumpkin Movie". Now.
8. Norman Wilner (August 27, 2018). "10 Canadian short films to watch at TIFF 2018". Now.
9. Pat Mullen, "Now Streaming: ‘In Dog Years’". Point of View, April 12, 2019.
10. Remembrance of József Romvári, retrieved 2022-10-03
11. "Miniseries Episode 6 - STILL PROCESSING with Sophy Romvari". SAD HILL MEDIA. 18 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
12. Goslawski, Barbara (2022-09-27). "TIFF 2022: It's What Each Person Needs". That Shelf. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
13. Whittemore, Liz (2022-09-14). "TIFF 22 short film review: Sophy Romvari's 'IT'S WHAT EACH PERSON NEEDS' pulls the run out from underneath you with its intimacy". Reel News Daily. Retrieved 2022-10-03.

External links

• Sophy Romvari at IMDb
• Official website