Sophia Cacciola is a Los Angeles-based cinematographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on horror, sci-fi, and surreal storytelling. Known for her bold use of color, practical lighting, and atmospheric composition, she brings a distinctive visual style to independent cinema. Through her production company, Launch Over, she collaborates on projects that explore identity, the fantastic, and the uncanny with a mix of visual precision and creative experimentation.
Sophia began her arts career in music, most notably as the no-wave punk singer-songwriter-drummer in Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, building up a following based around their music video recreations of the TV show, The Prisoner. Sophia was awarded an art residency at Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria in autumn 2017, where she built an interactive musical cocktail robot installation, Nothen für die Tothen, for the event Roboexotica. She also combines her love of music and film as the head videographer for the Women of Rock Oral History Project, documenting the lives and careers of women in rock who have been underrepresented or omitted from rock journalism and historical scholarship. She's a long-term vegan and passionate about senior chihuahua rescue.
You can find her production company at: Launch Over.