Siena Sofia Bergt

Siena Sofia Bergt is a filmmaker, writer, and native of Agua Fria, New Mexico. She made OPIA while attending Columbia University, becoming the first student in the school's history to complete a feature as an undergraduate. Her explorations into marginal, rural, and Uncanny storytelling modes have elicited stylistic comparisons ranging from Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo to Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor. Having begun her career as a theater director and trained under late cult filmmaker Ted Flicker, she views film as a means of producing direct confrontation between characters, artists, and audience.