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Sofia is an Impact Producer at Dua Pulau Digital (2ID) in Jakarta and the founder of East Cinema, a film program focusing on global conflict zones and social issues from Eastern Indonesia. She holds a master’s degree at Jakarta Institute of Arts. Her thesis was about film curatorial work that focuses on Papuan films.

She began her career in the film industry as an exhibition coordinator at In-Docs, Indonesia’s largest documentary organization, and has been involved in various film festivals both domestically and internationally. These include the Jakarta International Film Festival, Asian Hot Shots Film Festival (Berlin), Five Flavours Film Festival (Warsaw), Asia Peace Film Festival (Pakistan), etc. She has been part of the Madani International Film Festival in Jakarta since its inception and served as co-director from 2022 to 2023.  

In 2013, she co-authored the book Indonesian Women Filmmakers, published by Regiospectra, Berlin. In 2019, she was invited as a jury member at the Al-Nahj Film Festival in Karbala, Iraq, becoming the festival’s first female juror in the festival’s history.

In 2020, she transitioned into impact producing, driven by her deep interest in themes such as migration, refugee, identity crisis, history, and humanity. Some of the films in which she played a role as an impact producer or impact manager include Help Is On The Way (2019), which highlights the stories of Indonesian migrant workers; Homebound (2022), also focusing on Indonesian migrant workers; and Ininnawa: An Island Calling (2022), which centers on female healthcare workers. These campaigns have included grassroots work in rural migrant-sending villages, where she met directly with prospective and returning migrant workers and their families.

The films she has worked on have won multiple awards at international festivals and at the Indonesian Film Festival.