Sophie Heldman

Germany

Sophie Heldman (Hamburg, 1973) is a director and screenwriter. She grew up in Switzerland before moving to New York in 1993 where she began her career in independent cinema, working as a location manager on American productions. In the mid-1990s, she studied Film Directing at the DFFB in Berlin and complemented her training with studies in Directing Actors at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (between 1994 and 1998). She currently lives in Berlin and continues to develop projects for film and television. “The Education of Jane Cumming” is her second feature film.