SOPHIA RALSTON
FILM AND MUSIC VIDEO MAKER . WRITER // DIRECTOR
ABOUT
BIOGRAPHY
Sophia Ralston was born in Sydney, Australia in 1998 and grew up in Zurich, Switzerland where she received her Matura in 2016 with her first award-winning film project Roller Coaster Through the Clouds - a short film about ADHD (2015). Since then, she has been creating and collaborating on several low-budget short film projects and competitions across Europe. Her recent short film The Red World (2020) ran on national and international film festivals and received a large number of nominations and awards amongst others for Best Science Fiction Short Film and Best Message.
She attended various courses such as directing, writing, camera and acting workshops in Germany as well as studied “Acting for Film” at the Met Film School in London where she also gained work experience at Working Title Films. Since 2018 Sophia has been working in the Swiss film and television industry in a range of fields including assistant-director, editor and production-assistant.
After receiving her Bachelors degree in Filmmaking at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2023, Sophia returned to Switzerland to continue working in the field as a Crowd AD and to pursue her career as a writer/director predominantly in the music video and advertising industry.
Photo by Namona Teggart
WORK EXPERIENCE
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, 2020 - 2023
Undergraduate BA Filmmaking student
Contrast Films, Zurich, 2023
Crowd AD «Landesverräter»
Various companies, Zurich, Neuchâtel, 2020
Covid runner / supervisor for SET Management, Zodiac Pictures Ltd and C-Films AG
Background Action, Zurich, 2019 - 2022
Extras coordination, among others for «Stürm» and «Frieden»
CognitoFilms, Zurich, 2019
Internship 3rd AD for Arthouse feature film «Spagat»
Snakefilm, Zurich, 2018
Production- / AD Internship for 7th season «Der Bestatter»
10. Gässli Film Festival, Basel, 2018
Internship, Promotion/Admin/Editing
Working Title Films, London, 2017
Work Experience, In-house Runner
FILMOGRAPHY
2021 | «Tune It Out - Rock Opera Musical»
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2021 | «Mirror Mirror on the Wall - Monologues»
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2020 | «Secrets»
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor - Application film
2020 | «The Red World»
Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Editor - Application film
2019 | «They Had it Coming»
Director, Producer, Editor - Application film
2017 | «Blue Balloon»
Director, Editor- ZFF72
2017 | «Absolution»
Director, Writer - JugendFilmCamp
2016 | «Wasserfall»
Director, Writer, Editor - ZFF72
2015 | «Roller Coaster Through the Clouds - a short film about ADHD»
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor - Matriculation Project
OTHER PROJECTS
2022 | «Rosario»
Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
2020 | «Split Scene»
Co-Writer, Actor, Editor - JugendFilmCamp: InfluenZAr 2020
2019 | «Verführung»
Script Continuity, Costume - Application film by Damian Derungs
2019 | «Belcanto»
2. AD Crowd - ZHdK Film by Ian Oggenfuss
2019 | «Mind Hacking»
Writer, Editor - ZFF72 - Director: Regina Grimm
2019 | «Hotel: Honeymoon»
Script Continuity - Web Series - Director: Julien Wagner