sophie robinson

Director of so&so pictures Sophie Robinson has a strong reputation for telling impactful and powerful stories through the emotive characters that are at the core of her films. She specialises in working collaboratively with her subjects to create outstanding documentaries which provide a platform for a wide variety of previously unheard voices.

Her latest film ‘Living Donor’ for the Netflix four-parter ‘Surgeon’s Cut’ was award an Emmy, a BAFTA and an RTS award. Prior to that her feature documentary, also a Netflix Original ‘My Beautiful Broken Brain’ was executive produced by David Lynch and nominated for an Emmy as well as winning other documentary awards including the IDFA DOCU Award, The Ahftaz Festival Documentary Award, TRT and received a special mention from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists for best female director. Sophie is also behind award winning films such as BBC2’s ‘Me, My Mouth and I’, the highly acclaimed ’Nicola Roberts and The Truth about Tanning’, ‘Your Life In Their Hands’, ‘Edge of Life’, 'What's Killing Our Bees?' and ‘Do You See What I See?’ as well as a variety of programmes for the BBC’s flagship science strand, Horizon.

Sophie has extensive experience of working with on–screen talent, be it through working with brands (Gucci, Skype, Balmain, Victoria Beckham, The Women’s Prize For Fiction) or from making music documentaries as varied as ‘Mumford & Sons: We Wrote This Yesterday’ to the anarchist punk story of Chumbawamba in ‘I Get Knocked Down’.

so&so pictures are committed to excellence, engaging wide audiences, working with diverse teams and always creating extraordinary, thought-provoking stories.