Eligible to be considered for the upcoming 2021 Oscars, Sophia Banks’s short film Proxy focuses on a woman who gets more than she bargained for in her life of work. This live-action short film has already screened at high-profile film festivals including the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, Lone Star Film Festival, Louisville International Festival of Film, and Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival.
In a world where people hire ‘Proxys’ – trained humans who stand-in for a lost loved one, Victoria tries to navigate the life of being one of the highest in demand proxies in the city while struggling with her own demons.
Sophia Banks is an award-winning director, whose sci-fi short Unregistered, starring Dylan Penn and Trevor Jackson, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to screen at over twenty film festivals worldwide. Her upcoming short Proxy, which she co-wrote and directed is set to play at the 2020 XXX film festival. Sophia established herself as a director with her 2017 short, Making It On Time for Christian Siriano. Making It On Time received over fifteen awards, including Best Commercial from Oscar-qualifying Hollywood Shorts Film Festival. Banks has directed numerous award-winning commercials for brands such as Pepsi, Chobani, Target, BMW, Ford as well as fashion films for Ralph and Russo, Kylie and Kendall Jenner and many more. She is currently in Australia to shoot the upcoming Action/Thriller film Blacksite.
Proxy was co-produced by Jessica Bradham and David O’Donnell. Jessica Bradham is a producer and a part of the development team for Bank Films which is founded and run by Sophia Banks. David O’Donnell is an award-winning actor and writer who has been operating on both sides of the camera for the last 25 years.
Proxy post-production team includes the likes of editor Billy Rich (Exodus: Gods and Kings, Ghost in a Shell) along with VFX Supervisor Christoph Roth (Lion King, Guardians of the Galaxy).
Cinematographer Joshua Reis is an award-winning cinematographer who has DP’d for the likes of Chris Brown and Justin Bieber.
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