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Sophie Robinson (Director)
Sophie Robinson an Emmy, BAFTA & RTS winning documentary filmmaker whose work is known for its authenticity, honesty and emotional power. Her films are driven by a desire to tell character-driven, complex real stories in a compelling and engaging way. She has a strong reputation for telling impactful and powerful stories through the emotive characters that are at the core of her films. She specialise in working collaboratively with her subjects to create outstanding documentaries which provide a platform for a wide variety of previously unheard voices.

Her film ‘My Beautiful Broken Brain ’, a collaboration with Lotje Sodderland and a Netflix Original feature documentary, was executive produced by David Lynch and won the IDFA DOCU Award, The Ahftaz Festival Documentary Award, TRT and received a special mention from the AWJ for best female director. She directed the film 'Living Donor' from BAFTA & EMMY winning Netflix series ‘Surgeon’s Cut ’ and was BAFTA and Grierson nominated as best director for her film 'My Dead Body  '. She produced the music documentary ‘Mumford and Sons; We Wrote This Yesterday ’ and co-directed and produced the anarchist punk story of Chumbawamba ‘I Get Knocked Down ’ with Dunstan Bruce.

Her love of storytelling means that she has also made short films for brands and charities such as Augustinus Bader, Victoria Beckham, Future Dreams and Streets of London and in theatre land she has directed Dunstan Bruce's one man show 'Am I Invisible Yet?'

Filmography

 * Edge of Life (2004) - Director
 * Horizon: Britain's Most Dangerous Drug (2007) - Director
 * Olympic Dreams (2009) - Director
 * Nicola Roberts & The Truth About Tanning (2010) - Director
 * Horizon: Back From The Dead (2010) - Director
 * Horizon: How To Mend A Broken Hear t (2011) - Director
 * Horizon: Do You See What I See? (2011) - Director
 * The Ultimate Climb (2012) - Director
 * What’s Killing Our Bees? (2014) - Director
 * My Beautiful Broken Brain   (2016) - Director / Executive Producer
 * Mumford & Sons: We Wrote This Yesterday (2016) - Producer
 * Touretteshero: Me, My Mouth & I (2018) - Producer/Director
 * Eli: A Prison Dog (2021) - Executive Producer
 * The Surgeon’s Cut – Living Donor (2020) - Director
 * I Get Knocked Down   (2021) - Director
 * My Dead Body (2023) - Director

Theatre

 * Touretteshero: Me, My Mouth & I (2018) - Film director
 * Am I Invisible Yet? (2022) - Stage director
 * Burnt Out In Biscuit Land (2023) - Film director