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  • I'm either painting rainbows or thunderstorms behind you. Depends on the mood you catch me in. My imagination is my best friend.

  • My name is Sofia Garza-Barba. I’m a Mexican genre bending writer/director with an imaginative POV working between Mexico and California. Thanks to Mexican TV, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Black & White Mexican cinema and MTV, I grew up mesmerized by the magical worlds I saw on the screen, which lead me to where I am now. Directing music videos, commercials and films is what I was born to do.

  • I love stop motion animation, mixed media art, food, color, monsters, Drag Queens, dark humor & magical realism. My work is highly art driven, hand crafted, planned and harmonized from the idea to the screen. I love mixing genres and cultures to find a balance between the two. You'll find fantasy in every story I get to tell.

    I've worked with Grammy award winning bands like Kinky, Natalia Lafourcade & Aleks Syntek, and clients like Sony Music, Nickelodeon, Universal, Coca-Cola and Carl's Jr.

    Some of my work been shortlisted, awarded or screened at festivals like SITGES, GIFF, Rotterdam, Festival de Cannes (SFC + Fantastic Pavilion), LA Shorts, Tribeca (Nespresso Talents) San Diego International Film Festival and more.

    I'm a 2018 mentee of Ryan Murphy’s Half Initiative program, a 2019 graduate fellow director of the CDDP (Commercial Director's Diversity Program), a 2021 SANFIC-Morbido Lab participant, and a fellow director of 2021 Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today by HBO. Fellow director for LFI Inclusion fellowship sponsored by NETFLIX. I proudly work both in the U.S. and Mexico and I'm currently in development for my first feature called Luminosa Lady Limbo.

  • FAVORITES

  • Song: Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus

  • Candy: Haribo Gummies & Vero chilitos

  • Smell: New carpet

  • Food: Mexican & Italian

  • Drink: Jamaica & Mezcal

  • Color: Yellow, Black & Orange

  • I love… Drag Queens, Monsters, Mexico, Kitsch Art, Costume parties & eyes

  • I hate… negative energy

  • Not everyone knows that… A real Mexican luchador chipped my tooth

  • First movie I watched in a theatre was…The Witches

  • If I weren’t a filmmaker, I would be a… Chef

  • Movies: Amelie, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, The Shape of Water, Edward Scissorhands, Hable con Ella, Little Shop Of Horrors, Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind

  • Series: Veneno, Fleabag, Pose, Stranger Things, I May Destroy You