Sofía Brockenshire is an Argentine-Canadian filmmaker currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
Using cinema as mode for excavation and searching, her films explore buried histories, the politics of location, and the flow of transient lives. Her work has been selected and awarded at various international film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival, BAFICI, RIDM, DOK Leipzig. Museum Exhibitions include MALBA (Argentina), Itaú Instituto Cultural (Brazil) and Mana Contemporary (Chicago, USA), among others.
She has been awarded grants and funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, (USA), Arché at DocLisboa, and the Biennale di Venezia College Cinema.
She has also been selected for residency programs, including the Script Station at the Berlinale Talent Campus and the North Star Fellowship for Camden International Film Festival’s Points North Institute (USA).
She was a member of Nabis Filmgroup, an award-winning production company focusing on the creation of art house films in Latin America.
She holds an MFA in Film and Video at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, and teaches filmmaking at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec.
Using cinema as mode for excavation and searching, her films explore buried histories, the politics of location, and the flow of transient lives. Her work has been selected and awarded at various international film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival, BAFICI, RIDM, DOK Leipzig. Museum Exhibitions include MALBA (Argentina), Itaú Instituto Cultural (Brazil) and Mana Contemporary (Chicago, USA), among others.
She has been awarded grants and funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, (USA), Arché at DocLisboa, and the Biennale di Venezia College Cinema.
She has also been selected for residency programs, including the Script Station at the Berlinale Talent Campus and the North Star Fellowship for Camden International Film Festival’s Points North Institute (USA).
She was a member of Nabis Filmgroup, an award-winning production company focusing on the creation of art house films in Latin America.
She holds an MFA in Film and Video at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, and teaches filmmaking at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec.
Utilizando el cine como medio de excavación y búsqueda, sus películas exploran historias enterradas, las políticas de localización y el fluir de vidas transitorias. Sus películas han sido seleccionadas y premiadas en el Festival de Cine de Venecia, BAFICI, RIDM y DOK Leipzig. Ha expuesto en museos como MALBA (Argentina), Itaú Instituto Cultural (Brasil) y Mana Contemporary (Chicago, EE. UU.), entre otros.
Ha recibido becas y financiación del Consejo Canadiense para las Artes, el Ministerio de Cultura de Buenos Aires, Argentina, la Beca James Nelson Raymond (EE. UU.), Arché en DocLisboa y el College Cinema de la Bienal de Venecia.
También ha sido seleccionada para programas de residencia, como Script Station en el Berlinale Talent Campus y la Beca North Star del Points North Institute del Festival Internacional de Cine de Camden (EE. UU.).
Formó parte de Nabis Filmgroup, una productora especializada en la creación de cine de autor en Latinoamérica.
Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes en Cine y Video del School of the Art Institute of Chicago, EE. UU, y es profesora de cine en la Escuela de Cine Mel Hoppenheim de la Universidad Concordia de Montreal, Quebec.