Sofia Ayerdi

Sofia Ayerdi is a mexican producer, writer and director. She is an alumna of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Gold Rising Program, which seeks to develop careers of filmmakers with diverse backgrounds and that only accepted 100 out of 9,189 applicants in the year she participated. Because of her great performance and achievements during the Gold Rising program, she was chosen as a Trophy Presenter at the 94th Academy Awards. She is a fellow of Blackmagic Collective, from Blackmagic Design, and was part of the First Frame Initiative for emerging directors. She founded her production company, Zanate Films, with the purpose of promoting filmmaking in Tecpan de Galeana, Mexico, the town where she is from. In 2022 she won the Sigma Film Student Scholarship for her film "Bonsai" and was chosen as 1 out of the 10 filmmakers for the LALIFF Inclusion Fellowship, which is sponsored by Netflix. She has been interviewed in Good Morning America, Spectrum News 1, EFE Noticias, among others for her work both as a filmmaker and as a member of a diverse community.

Halfway, short film, 2021 - 7' Taliban Flower, short film, 2022 - 10' El Sueño. short film, 2022 - 15' Na Savi, short film, 2023 - 15'