Biography Sophie Barthes

Born in France, Sophie Barthes grew up in the Middle East and South America.  In 2000, she moved to New York to attend Columbia University Graduate School of International & Public Affairs for a curriculum in international affairs and film. Sophie graduated after directing a documentary in Yemen on the UNICEF literacy programs for women with cinematographer Andrij Parekh.  Together they directed the short film Snowblink in Ukraine.  She recently wrote and directed the award-winning short Happiness, which screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Both Happiness and Cold Souls won the NYSCA Individual Artists Grants and the Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay (Feature & Short categories) at the Nantucket Film Festival.  Sophie recently completed her residency at the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony and was admitted to the 2007 Sundance Screenwriters Lab with Cold Souls. Cold Souls will be produced by Touchy Feely Films and Journeyman Pictures.

 

HAPPINESS - SHORT FILM

By Sophie Barthes
Color - 35 mm – 11 min 2006
Log Line: What if happiness was for sale?

Synopsis: One evening, after work, Iwona buys a box of happiness in a strange discount store and has to decide what to do with it.

A straight-faced comedy with Polish-american screen legend Elzbieta Czyzewska shot in Boston and New York City. The New York Anthology Film Archives dedicated a retrospective to her career in May 2005. Elzbieta has acted in more than 40 feature films directed by Polish distinguished directors as Andrzej Wajda, Wojciech Has, Jerzy Skolimowski and Janusz Nasfeter. 

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