Sofia Exarchou

Sofia Exarchou was born in Athens. She studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Film Direction at the Stavrakos Film School and Theater at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York. She also pursued post-graduate film studies at Esav in Toulouse, France. In 2014, she was selected for the Sundance Screenwriter's & Director's Lab. "Park", her first feature film, premiered at Toronto IFF and San Sebastian IFF, where it won the New Directors Award. Since then, it has won awards in numerous international film festivals (Rotterdam, BFI London, Best European Film - EFF Palic and Best Debut Film - HFA). She is currently working on her second feature film, "Animal" which was screened in L’Atelier by the Cannes Film Festival, in June 2020.