Cultural Producer

Sophie Barbara

Born in Paris, França 1978

Graduated in Management of Organisations in 2001 at the University Paris XII, she completed her training with a specialisation in European Funds for Arts and Culture in 2022.

In 2003, she moved to Lisbon where she worked in cultural production as a project manager until 2010, the year where she co-founded the production company BARCA13 where she works as production manager. Since 2017, she lives in the Azores, on the island of Faial, where she relocated her production company and co-founded two new projects; INSULARES FILMES, which is aimed at audiovisual production and international co-productions shot in the Azores archipelago and AVISTAVULCÃO, a space for cultural programming and artistic residencies next to the Capelinhos Volcano.

In 2021 was director of production for 9x9 - Projecto Piloto de Residências Artísticas dos Açores - Pilot programme of artistic residencies in the Azores produced by Azores 2027/Candidatura a Capital Europeia da Cultura and Arquipélago/Centro de Arte Contemporânea. In 2022, she was one of the producers selected to participate in the EURODOC International Audiovisual Production Laboratory. At the moment, she is production director of two cinematographic documentaries by Gonçalo Tocha shot in the Azores (on the islands of the Triangle and Graciosa). Executive producer of the fiction feature film "Ariel" by Lois Patiño and Matias Piñeiro, shot in 2023 in Faial and Pico and production director of the artistic residencies program AVISTAVULCÃO.

She has notably produced cinematográˌcos projects such as "The Trail of a Tale" (2015), "A Mãe e o Mar" (2014), "Torres e Cometas" (2013) and "É na Terra e não na Lua" (2011), musical projects such as "Música Moderna" (2015) and the show "DINAMITE" at Teatro São Luiz (Lisbon) and Teatro Rivoli (Porto) (2016-2017) and cultural events in Faial such as "Cartas do Vulcão" (2022), "Festa do União Vulcânico" (2022), "Uma Mulher no meio do Vulcão" (2021).