Sophia Vi is a Transgender British-Greek Cypriot writer, director, actor and CEO of Koupepia Films. She trained at The London Studio Center and The International School of Screen Acting.
Sophia won 'Best Micro Short' for Façade at the Iris Prize Film Festival 2024 which she both directed and starred in. In November 2023, Sophia Vi was featured in British Vogue x Nike x Not A Phase as apart of Edward Enninful's representation campaign that was guest edited by international transgender celebrity and model Munroe Bergdorf. For her writing; Sophia was a Semi-Finalist in the LA Screenplay Awards 2024 in the Feature Film Screenplay category.
Her films have been selected for both national and international film festivals including; Bolton International Film Festival, Pride Pictures Karlsruhe, New York Transgender Film Festival, Free the Kitch Festival Athens, Bradford International Film Festival, North East International Film Festival and Iris Prize.
Within her theatrical work Sophia recently directed Good Boy by James Farley which performed to sold out audiences at both Camden and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals receiving multiple 5* reviews. Further theatrical directorial, movement and associate work includes; Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d (UK National Tour), The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre - West End) and Dear Lupin (Apollo Theatre - West End).
An actress first foremost Sophia seeks use her production company, Koupepia Films, to create the roles for actors that are often type-cast, pigeoned holed or overlooked. She strives to develop short form LGBT+ and Diasporic stories of joy that can be developed for long form features.
Press:
‘[Sophia Vi] correspondingly shines brightly, exuding such a magnificently grounded, engagingly stirring and expressive performance as Eleni’
4.5* - One Film Fan (Koupepia)
‘[Sophia Vi] has put physical comedy as the heart of the performance and it brings it to life’
5* - Broadway World (Twelfth Night)
‘Director Sophia Vi skilfully uses pink hues to evoke the innocence of first times and transitions deep reds into blacks to underscore darker experiences […] Vi isn’t afraid to oscillate between kitschy sounds and stark silence, amplifying tension in key moments.’
5* - Edinburgh Festival Magazine (Good Boy)
'The film was beautiful, the juxtaposition of the brutal imagery [...] and the words of Shakespeare delivered so perfectly [...] it was a very power piece'
Charlotte Amoss (Iris Prize Judge - Façade Press Release)