Independent Writers' Caucus
Sofia Drummond-Moore
Sofia has a Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing from Knox College and a Masters Degree in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, where she was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist and won the Writers Room Ready Award.
Sofia primarily gets excited about drama, horror and thriller stories with a specific interest in strange historical curiosities, LGBTQ+ stories and those focused on female protagonists. She believes ghost stories can be some of the most important stories.
Her prose writing has been published in New Delta Review, Pithead Chapel, Door Is A Jar Magazine, Cleaver Magazine and many others. She has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Sofia has worked as an intern at Conner Literary and Ghost House Pictures, as a writers assistant to a prominent author, and as an executive producer on a teen mystery series for streaming. She is currently a freelance writer for prose and film.
Her short film THE LAST BIRTHDAY, about the Romanov family, was the Winner of Berlinale European Film Market Premier, nominee for the European Independent Film Awards, selection for The Still Voices International Film Festival, The Southside Film Festival and Mammoth Film Festival .
When she's not writing Sofia has been a figure skater, a museum curator, fever specialist, tree devotee, nostalgia expert and gravestone attendee.
Honors & Awards
Winner, Big Break Final Draft Competition - ADA - 2024
Semi-Finalist, Austin Film Festival - RIKO'S CIRCLE - 2024
Finalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Award - QUIET BODIES - 2023
non-WGA
Female, LGBTQ+
QUIET BODIES
(Historical Drama)
Based on the true stories of ballerinas who burned to death on stage in the 1860s.
Paris 1861, a young dancer joins the famous ballet only to be surrounded by persecution and danger, yet through the love of another dancer she finds hope and rebellion.
CLY
(Psychological thriller)
A woman still grieving the sudden loss of her daughter lands the lead role of Clytemnestra in a retelling of the Greek tragedy Agamemnon only to be set on a path of violence she must escape from as the lines between reality and play blur.
REGRESSION
(Horror)
A young student travels to Copenhagen to study the conservation of bog bodies but after trying past life regression therapy becomes convinced her body and her life are being taken over by a dangerous man from 280 BCE.
Female-centric, Queer, Thriller, Psychological, Horror, Dark, International, Magical Realism
Female, LGBTQ+
unrepped