(b. 1987, Los Angeles, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Sophia Nahli Allison is an Academy Award® nominated filmmaker and photographer. As a black queer radical dreamer she reimagines the archives by excavating hidden truths. A meditation of the spirit, her work conjures ancestral memories, mysticism, and abstraction to explore the intersection of fiction and non-fiction storytelling. Sophia was a 2020 United States Artists Fellow, a 2014 Chicago 3Arts Awardee and has held residencies at MacDowell, The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France., POV’s African Interactive Art Residency, and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. She earned a Master’s degree in visual communication and a Bachelor’s degree in photojournalism. Sophia received a 2021 Academy Award nomination for her short experimental documentary A Love Song For Latasha (2019), of which she was the director, cinematographer, editor, and producer. Recently, she directed and co-wrote the 2021 HBO Max original documentary Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground. Sophia is currently working on her ongoing self-portrait series Dreaming Gave Us Wings and developing a dark comedy series with her creative partner.
