Sophia Takal

Sophia Takal

Born: May 12, 1986
in Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Sophia Takal is an American actress, writer and director, perhaps best known for her work in independent features such as All the Light in the Sky, Supporting Characters and Gabi on the Roof in July. Filmmaker magazine named Takal one of the "25 New Faces of Film" in 2011. She directed and co-wrote the 2019 remake of the 1974 horror film Black Christmas.

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Uncle Kent 2
Title: Uncle Kent 2
Character: Public Domain Superhero
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: Movie
In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world.
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George and the Vacuum
Title: George and the Vacuum
Character: Lacy
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: Movie
George and Lacy walk through the streets of Brooklyn and revisit their memories.
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Devil Town
Title: Devil Town
Character: Eve Phillips
Released: April 16, 2015
Type: Movie
A young woman's sister goes missing. She then sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her on her own, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.
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Wild Canaries
Title: Wild Canaries
Character: Barri
Released: October 23, 2014
Type: Movie
When their elderly neighbor suddenly drops dead, a young Brooklyn couple investigates signs of foul play.
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Be with Me (The Notebook)
Title: Be with Me (The Notebook)
Character: Woman
Released: June 21, 2014
Type: Movie
A woman walks into a video store and makes a sad, strange request.
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God's Pocket
Title: God's Pocket
Character: Temple Graduate
Released: May 9, 2014
Type: Movie
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
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Cheatin'
Title: Cheatin'
Character: Ella
Released: April 23, 2014
Type: Movie
In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.
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All the Light in the Sky
Title: All the Light in the Sky
Character: Faye
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.
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24 Exposures
Title: 24 Exposures
Character: Callie
Released: August 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Billy is a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead. Michael, a melancholic cop, is tasked with investigating him.
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Hellaware
Title: Hellaware
Character: Bernadette
Released: June 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows
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Pollywogs
Title: Pollywogs
Character: Jessica (voice)
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Left reeling by his latest catastrophic breakup, Dylan retreats to Minnesota for a family reunion featuring firearms, heavy metal and unwelcome questions. Amongst the throng of relatives, he discovers Sarah, the childhood crush he hasn't seen since her family decamped to a religious compound. Could she prove to be the perpetually heartbroken Dylan's salvation or will their emotional scars fail to align?
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Detonator
Title: Detonator
Character: Belle
Released: March 2, 2013
Type: Movie
From rocker to family man, this captivating debut reveals the strife we face when it’s time to grow up. The rhythm of Sully’s (Lawrence Levine, Gabi on the Roof In July) life drastically changes when he abandons Philadelphia’s gritty punk rock scene for suburban simplicity. Now, in a dull office job, Sully must support his family, while the lifestyle he had lead is tough to let go. Nostalgia puts him in a paralyzing daze of somber apathy, prompting his exasperated wife to beg him to focus on the present. When his reckless ex-bandmate arrives unexpectedly and drags Sully on a nightlong scheme, pulling him back into his old ways, Sully must decide what to sacrifice. The familiarity livens his soul and awakens his emotions, but when the safety of his family becomes endangered will Sully be able to decide what matters to him most?
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Molly's Theory of Relativity
Title: Molly's Theory of Relativity
Character: Molly
Released: March 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Set on Halloween, a young astronomer who has unexpectedly lost her job, is poised to make perhaps the first reckless decision of her life.
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Weekend Away
Title: Weekend Away
Character: Rose
Released: February 27, 2013
Type: Movie
A distressed young woman leaves the city for the weekend with the hopes of clearing her head, but meets a mysterious hitchhiker who only confuses things more. The farther she goes to escape the more she finds herself trapped.
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Open Five 2
Title: Open Five 2
Released: December 13, 2012
Type: Movie
A relationship drama set amid a winter van trip from New York to New Orleans. A loose continuation of the 2010 film.
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The Men of Dodge City
Title: The Men of Dodge City
Character: Sophia
Released: September 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Twentysomething J. and two of his close friends are in the process of realizing their utopian dream: turning an abandoned cathedral into a grant-powered, environmentally sustainable art space. Newcomers to the post-industrial frontier where they found this chapel, they have been carried here by progressive beliefs that have since left them in a muddled quandary to question the validity of their presence. But there is work to do every day. Work to realize the dream they might still have.
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Gayby
Title: Gayby
Character: Honey
Released: September 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer's block and can't get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a promise to have a child together... the old fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? 'Gayby' is an irreverent comedy about friendship, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose.
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V/H/S
Title: V/H/S
Character: Stephanie (segment "Second Honeymoon")
Released: July 28, 2012
Type: Movie
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
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The International Sign for Choking
Title: The International Sign for Choking
Released: June 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Josh (Zach Weintraub) is a young American who has traveled to Buenos Aires to find subjects for a documentary series he has been commissioned to produce. While there, he seems also to be hoping to use the time to regroup—although regroup from what is unclear. The change of venue is not without its own set of problems, however. Josh finds it difficult to get his footing in Buenos Aires. Subjects aren’t coming easy, and he is having trouble connecting socially. He spends long stretches of time isolated in his rented room, struggling to move forward with his work and make social in-roads. Enter Anna (Sophia Takal), a young woman renting a room with an adjoining wall to Josh. After discovering each other through this shared wall, a friendship quickly blossoms which may lead to something more. What remains uncertain is if Anna’s presence will help pull Josh out of his doldrums.
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Cat Scratch Fever
Title: Cat Scratch Fever
Character: Anna
Released: June 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Two young women discover a way to view parallel universe versions of themselves via the internet, and rapidly become obsessed with watching the alternate paths that their lives might have taken.
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Supporting Characters
Title: Supporting Characters
Character: Amy
Released: January 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.
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Second Honeymoon
Title: Second Honeymoon
Character: Stephanie
Released: January 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A married couple, Sam and Stephanie, go out to the West for their second honeymoon and rent a hotel room. The couple visit a Wild West themed attraction where Stephanie receives a prediction from a mechanical fortune teller. The prediction says that she will be visited by a loved one. Later that night while at the hotel the couple is visited by a strange woman (the events are not shown on camera) who asks for a ride in the morning.
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Coffee & Pie
Title: Coffee & Pie
Character: June
Released: September 4, 2011
Type: Movie
In this self-proclaimed anti-romantic comedy, couple June and October are breaking up. Manipulative June feels her moral superiority justifies the breakup. A "confucked" October learns from seasoned waitress Billy-Jean, that revenge is a dish best served with pie.
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Green
Title: Green
Character: Robin
Released: June 22, 2011
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
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The Zone
Title: The Zone
Character: Sophia
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about God, life and filmmaking.
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Gabi on the Roof in July
Title: Gabi on the Roof in July
Character: Gabi
Released: February 27, 2010
Type: Movie
An ambitious painter on the verge of a big break confronts his moral decay when his idealist, hell-raising, younger sister comes to stay with him in New York City for the summer.
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After Lilly
Title: After Lilly
Character: Lilly
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A cold coffee, a dismal day, the gray-green East River. The impetus for love. After Lilly is an examination into how a random encounter can spark a new lease on life.