About

Sophia de Baun is a filmmaker currently working as an editor, producer, and camera operator based in NYC. Upon graduating from Rutgers University in 2014, she became one of four Paul Robeson Scholars who received the Henry Rutgers Scholar Award for an outstanding thesis through the Women’s and Gender Studies department. She later moved to New York where she pursued film, using it as a medium through which she explores concepts of gender, sexuality, and identity.

She wrote, directed, produced, and edited short film, Sisters (2015), web series Out There! (2022), which received a NYFA grant from the Women's Fund for Media, Music and Theatre, and short Filling Holes (2023), which she also stars in. Filling Holes made NoBudge’s 2023 Films of the Year and screened at numerous film festivals including Mammoth Lakes Film Festival at which it received honorable mention. She co-wrote, produced, and edited feature, Scenes From a Breakup (2018), short film Don’t Come Close (2021) [Rooftop Films, LALIFF and HBO NY Latino] as well as award-winning pilot, Chiqui (2022), that screened as part of the Indie Episodic Program at Sundance and collected many awards including best in writing, best actress, and best episodic and screened at festivals such as Series Fest, LALIFF, and Atlanta.

In 2020 she produced and edited Vimeo Staff Pick music video Hold That Weight which also screened as part of Samorah Pinderhughes’ exhibition The Healing Project at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF which received a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Recent work includes a series of music videos coming out this Spring which she produced and edited for the pop band the X-Ambassadors, as as Touch of Red, a documentary about Shamel Pitts’ new work and A Time Apart, a narrative feature in French and English by Courtney Thérond, both of which she served as lead editor.

Cameras

Sony PXW-FX9, Sony Alpha a7S III

Contact: sophiadebaun@gmail.com