Biography

She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria in 1996. In 1997 she specialized Fine Arts in School of Visual Arts, New York and Advertising and Graphic Design in American University, Washington, DC. In 2002 she specialized Film and TV Directing in NAFTA, Sofia, Bulgaria under the supervision of Prof. Lyudmil Staykov. Mila ot Mars (2004) is her diploma film.

- IMDb mini biography by: Georgi Djulgerov <major@bitex.com>

Zornitsa Sophia is Master of Fine Arts, major in painting, who has presented at over 60 exhibitions internationally. Before her art graduation, she restored the church and the murals in Sofia Male Prison together with the prisoners. Her debut feature film as writer, director and producer is "Mila From Mars", 2004, with 16 awards, over 60 festivals, Bulgarian submission for the Academy Awards and a national box office hit. Following are the documentaries "Death and All The Way Back", 2005 and "Modus Vivendi", 2007, and the feature "Forecast", 2009. "Voevoda", 2017, is her third feature film and first as actress in the leading role. It premiered at Shanghai IFF and Moscow IFF and is a national box office hit. She has directed 52 episodes in seven prime time TV series, two of them she started as the first director. She directed the awarded theater play "When The Rain Stops Falling" by Andrew Bovell and the opera Zakhari, The Painter", composer: Marin Goleminov, which opened the season 2019/2020 of National Opera and Ballet in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her films were selected in over 160 festivals, 44 competitions and received 20 awards, some with record admissions nationally. Zornitsa Sophia served as a jury member at film festivals like Warsaw, Valencia, Plzen and in the Artistic Committee of Bulgarian National Film Center. She has the passion of leading intensive workshops on filmmaking, her style being "learning by doing". Zornitsa Sophia's new film "Mother" will premiere in Competition at Warsaw IFF and Golden Rose FF, will be the opening film of "Kinomania" and is selected as Bulgarian submission for the 95th Academy Awards.

- IMDb mini biography by: Zornitsa Sophia