Sophie Hayward is a Melbourne filmmaker and honours graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) School of Film and Television (2012).
Her films have played in festivals worldwide, with her graduate film THE ZOO selected for the MIFF Accelerator Program in 2013, Flickerfest, WoW Film Festival, and screened on ABC’s The Screening Room and iView.
Since leaving VCA Sophie has worked as a freelance Production and Costume Designer, on a range of films, commercials, music videos, and worked in the art departments of TV productions, including NBC Universal’s CHILDHOOD’S END, RONNY CHIENG: INTERNATIONAL STUDENT, TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN and HOUSE HUSBANDS.
In 2016 she was nominated for an Australian Production Design Guild award and is currently working on the sci-fi feature STEM directed by Leigh Whannell as a buyer/dresser, while also developing her own directing projects.