WORKSHOP: REIMAGINED REFLECTIONS WITH SOPHIA NAHLI ALLISON

Sophia Nahli Allison is an experimental documentary filmmaker, photographer, and dreamer born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. She disrupts conventional documentary methods by reimagining the archives and excavating hidden truths. She conjures ancestral memories to explore the intersection of fiction and non-fiction storytelling.

Her short experimental documentary A Love Song For Latasha, about the life of Latasha Harlins, world premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, with several more festival screenings to continue this year.

Sophia was a 2018 Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab Programs Fellow and a recipient of a 2018 Glassbreaker Films Catalyst Grant. She was a 2018 artist-in-residence at The Center for Photography at Woodstock and a 2019 3Arts Residency Fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Sophia was named the 2017 Student Video Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographer Association and was a participant of the Eddie Adams Workshop, the New York Times Student Journalism Institute, and the 2nd Annual New York Times Lens Blog Portfolio Review. As an educator, she’s taught photo and video to youth in Chicago and Los Angeles and is a grateful recipient of a 2014 Chicago 3Arts Award, a $25,000 grant for her work as a teaching artist.

She currently resides in the South exploring ideas of conjuring + dreaming and turns to the brilliance of the universe and nature to imagine endless possibilities.

Sophia received her Master’s in Visual Communication from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as a Roy H. Park Fellow and holds a BA in Photojournalism from Columbia College Chicago.