Sophy Romvari

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]

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

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]

Her full-length directorial debut, Blue Heron, entered production in 2024.^[14] It is slated to premiere at the 78th Locarno Film Festival.^[15]

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
2025	Blue Heron	Writer/Director/Producer	Feature

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.