Sophia Carr-Gomm trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, starting out initially as a professional actor she was in television series such as Shetland (BBC), Mr Selfridge (ITV), World’s End (BBC) as well as theatre such as The Cardinal at The Southwark Playhouse and King Lear at The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow.
She moved into directing in 2018, alongside working in feature film script reading, development and pre-production assisting with Midsummer Films from 2018-2019. She has directed, produced and written a number of short films, most notably, her first film, The Wider Sun premiering at the BFI Southbank in 2018 and picking up Best Director at Oslo Film Festival. Other films, Nobody’s Darling and Mine have screened at BAFTA qualifying London Short Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival and Raindance. She was invited to be a panellist at London Film Week 2021 two years after Nobody’s Darling screened there as an introductory short to Cannes-Award-Winning feature film Portrait of a Lady on Fire. She co-produced alongside Glen Kirby and directed by Amal Al-Agroobi, a short for London Sci-Fi Film Festival 48-hour film challenge which was and shortlisted in the top 10. Sophia was featured in Pitch Fanzine in 2021 as New Talent to watch and Mine picked up a Shiny Award.
Since 2022 she has been working as Casting Director Orla O’Connor’s Casting Assistant and has been her right-hand woman to casting upcoming television shows The Diplomat (Alibi), Six Four (ITV), Jed Mercurio’s latest series Payback (ITV), Molly & Mack (CBBC) & Shetland (BBC). She has been the sole Casting Director on the short Sleep Hunger commissioned by Bristol & Bath Creative R&D and We Have Till Dawn an NFTS graduation film 2022.
After being commissioned to write and direct four interlinking films for the music A Short Walk composed by Ben Rowarth and sung by the Fieri Consort, she went on to write the libretto for Rowarth’s next music piece The Fall, which will come to performance in 2024. She has most recently been commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute as a producer for a short documentary entitled The Sound of the Wind directed and shot by Ukrainian Director/Cinematographer Maria Pankova which follows a Ukrainian refugee in Scotland. This documentary has had its UK premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023.
Recently she has directed a campaign for longer paternity leave in the UK for the charity Pregnant Then Screwed which went viral on Instagram and has been viewed 434K times with 18.5K likes and counting! She continues to work as a director, writer, producer and in casting, as well as giving Q&A’s and workshops in these subjects to students.