Sofia Santa-Rita was born in Lisbon on January 8, 1994.

In 2026, her first short film, OLHOS, OLHOS, NARIZ, BOCA (EYES, EYES, NOSE, MOUTH), will have its world premiere at the 54th Huesca International Film Festival and its national premiere at the 22nd FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival.

As a writer and director, she is currently developing the projects ISTO AGORA MUDA TUDO! (THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING NOW!), a series created together with Catarina Rabaça and João Cachola, funded by RTP Lab, and the short film INÚTIL PAISAGEM (USELESS LANDSCAPE), which has received support from the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (Portuguese Society of Authors) and the GDA Foundation, and was also the winning project of the 2025 edition of the Novos Olhares – Support for Portuguese Cinema programme.

In 2025, she joined the team of José Pimentão’s series TRÊS TRISTES TIGRES (THREE SAD TIGERS) as an assistant director.

In 2023, her film VOZES PICTÓRICAS (PICTORIAL VOICES), developed during her Master’s in Fine Arts at FBAUL, focusing on concrete poetry and videopoetry, was selected for the official competition of the FUSO Festival. That same year, she co-published the book POV with Joana Botelho and Constança Villaverde Rosado, and wrote and directed the experimental short film UMBIGO (NAVEL), conceived for an exhibition at Galeria Arte Graça. The film was later screened at Shortcutz Lisboa (2024) and at the Moonscreen programme of the Waking Life festival (2026).

In parallel, she works in photography and graphic design for film and theatre projects, collaborating with artists such as Alice Nascimento, António Botelho, As Crianças Loucas, Duarte Coimbra, Frederico Serpa, Joana Botelho, José Pimentão, Leonor Buesco, and Miguel Munhá, among others.

She defines herself as a multidisciplinary artist interested in the paradoxical nature of things. Her work primarily explores the relationship between image and text, crossing poetry, writing, typography, photography, and video. Marked by a strong sensory dimension, her practice arises from an attempt to bridge the gap between herself and the other. It is in the impulse to tell stories that she finds both the origin and the culmination of her work, with cinema as her main focus and territory of creation.