Sofía Camargo is a Colombian filmmaker based in San Francisco. Drawing on her background in anthropology and art history, she makes sensory-driven films that explore women’s domestic lives, class, and female subjectivity.
Her short films include Eugenia, Al lado del río (NALIP Jury Award, Vimeo Staff Pick), and Nostos. Al lado del río and Nostos screened at the Cartagena International Film Festival and were both acquired by the Criterion Channel. Her most recent short, We’re Not Done Yet, co-directed with Joseph Longo and starring Barbara Sukowa, screened at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Her upcoming short La Selva received the inaugural 2025 Vimeo Short Film Grant.
As a cinematographer, her work has screened at Berlinale, Aspen Shortsfest, and SXSW, and she received the 2023 Vienna Shorts Jury Prize for Best Cinematography.
She holds a BA from Universidad de los Andes and an MFA in Film from NYU.
Festivals and Exhibitions
Sundance Film Festival, 2025. Shorts Competition.
Hamptons Film Festival Official Selection, 2024. Views from Long Island.
Cartagena International Film Festival, 2023. Official Selection.
Girls in Film 2023, “The Future is Frightening.”
Museo de Arte de Bogotá. Nosotras Contamos, 2022.
Festival de cine de Villa de Leyva, 2021.
Bogoshorts Sessions, 2020.
Cartagena International Film Festival, 2020. Official Selection.
Latino Media Fest, 2020.
Amarcort Film Festival, 2020.
Little Wing Film Festival, 2020.
Glasgow International Festival, 2021. Twelve Theses on Attention.
Universidad de Los Andes. Exhibición Búsqueda, 2018.
Universidad de los Andes. Premio Salón Seneca, 2014.
Vimeo Short Film Grant 2025
Vienna Shorts Jury Prize for Best Cinematography 2023
Black Family Prize 2022
Jeff Lima Production Award 2020
Latino Media Fest Official Jury Award 2020
Nykon Storytellers Scholarship
Purin Foundation Scholarship
The Willard. T.C. Johnson Fellowship
TSOA Graduate Scholarship
Robert A. Daly Scholarship
Beca Fondo Para el Desarrollo Cinematográfico, Proimágenes Colombia