Sophia Romma

Screenwriter/Playwright/Theatre and Film Director, Dr. Sophia Romma is the screenwriter and producer of the Garnet Grand Prix Award-Winning international art-house motion-picture, Poor Liza, starring Emmy Award-Winning and three-time Golden Globe winning actor, Ben Gazzara and Obie, two-time Emmy and Academy Award-Winning actress, Lee Grant. Poor Liza, directed by the émigré cult director of Liquid Sky, won honorable mention for best original drama phantasma at the Cairo Film Festival, took second prize for revival of surrealism and mysticism in film, won first prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival for the Bunuel Film Series Tribute and was awarded the Garnet Grand Prix Bracelet from the St. Petersburg Literature in Film Festival, which is equivalent to receiving the coveted Oscar. Sophia Romma penned the screenplays and directed three films for New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program: So Happy Together, Pornography! Pornography! Pornography! and Commercial America in the '90s. She wrote the screenplay for the documentary: Call Girls for Hire: The Sex Slave Trade Epidemic in Eastern Europe for which she was honored with Moscow's Social Awareness Documentary Film Award at the Moscow Women Make Documentaries Film Festival. Romma also wrote and directed a series of cutting-edge short films for the New York Film Academy: Underneath Her Make-Up (unveiling the stigmatized and hounded LGBTQ community in India) and The Frozen Zone (shedding light on the supernatural healing powers of ancient shamanism and its infinite wisdom).