SOPHIE HELDMAN Director Sophie Heldman was born in Hamburg in 1973 to a Mexican mother and a German father. In 1976 her family moved to Switzerland, where she grew up. In 1993 she moved to New York to work as a locations manager on independent feature films. In 1996 she returned to Europe to study directing at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin. In addition she took classes in directing actors at the Tisch School of Arts, NYU. During her student years she worked on a number of feature films as first and second assistant director, working with directors including Sydney Pollack, Stina Werenfels, Xavier Koller and Daniel Schmid. Sophie Heldman’s student short film “Icke” was nominated for Best Short Film at the Film Festival Max-Ophüls-Preis and was shown at several other Festivals. Sophie Heldman lives in Berlin. «Colours in the Dark» is her first feature film. FILMOGRAPHY 2010 COLOURS IN THE DARK  85 Min., 35mm		Sophie Heldman Satte Farben vor Schwarz (2009)