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Journalist, screenwriter and videographer based in Lisbon, Portugal
Sofia Perpétua is an award-winning journalist, writer, photographer and filmmaker. Her work focuses on human rights, social justice, books and culture and it has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN, BBC, PRI, Ms. Magazine, OZY, New York Financial Press, The Intercept Brazil, Notícias Magazine, Expresso and other news outlets in the United States, Brazil and Portugal. She has also collaborated with Human Rights Watch, Greenpeace and UNICEF in South America. In 2017, she received a Pictures Of the Year International First Place Award in Multimedia News and Issue Reporting for her documentary work for The New York Times. In 2019, The Thread podcast, the podcast she produces, was nominated for two Webby Awards.
She was awarded The New York Times Fellowship while working on her Master’s degree in Journalism from the City University of New York. While working for the The New York Times, among other projects, she produced the literature series “The Read Around,” interviewed Patti Smith and produced some episodes of “On the Street with Bill Cunningham.” Prior to attending CUNY, she worked as a program assistant at PNND (Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament) and she was a board member of the Newswomen's Club of New York, the only professional organization exclusively for women journalists in the New York metropolitan area.
In 2016, she became a freelance journalist when she moved to Brazil to work on the coverage of the Zika crisis for The New York Times. She later worked as an International Communication Consultant for the Organizing Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and as a video producer for the IPC, International Olympic Committee, at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympic Games and the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games.
In 2023, she wrote the play “TANK” that won the 2023 New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship promoted by Companhia Cepa Torta, a structure funded by the Portuguese Republic/Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes). The jury said the play was chosen “for its originality in its treatment of a current theme, as well as for its clear literary quality and scenic potential, which contribute to the relevance of this work in the context of contemporary Portuguese dramaturgy. “
Sofia was born in Lisbon, lived in Amsterdam, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, grew up in New York. She is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, conversational in French and Dutch. When she is not working you can find her listening to vinyl records, drawing sunny landscapes, scribbling fiction or meeting friends over cheese and wine.
She was awarded The New York Times Fellowship while working on her Master’s degree in Journalism from the City University of New York. While working for the The New York Times, among other projects, she produced the literature series “The Read Around,” interviewed Patti Smith and produced some episodes of “On the Street with Bill Cunningham.” Prior to attending CUNY, she worked as a program assistant at PNND (Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament) and she was a board member of the Newswomen's Club of New York, the only professional organization exclusively for women journalists in the New York metropolitan area.
In 2016, she became a freelance journalist when she moved to Brazil to work on the coverage of the Zika crisis for The New York Times. She later worked as an International Communication Consultant for the Organizing Committee for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and as a video producer for the IPC, International Olympic Committee, at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympic Games and the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games.
In 2023, she wrote the play “TANK” that won the 2023 New Dramaturgy Award for Female Authorship promoted by Companhia Cepa Torta, a structure funded by the Portuguese Republic/Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes). The jury said the play was chosen “for its originality in its treatment of a current theme, as well as for its clear literary quality and scenic potential, which contribute to the relevance of this work in the context of contemporary Portuguese dramaturgy. “
Sofia was born in Lisbon, lived in Amsterdam, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, grew up in New York. She is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, conversational in French and Dutch. When she is not working you can find her listening to vinyl records, drawing sunny landscapes, scribbling fiction or meeting friends over cheese and wine.
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I'm available for commissions and collaborations, so feel free to reach out. If you want to say "hi," if you want me to read your stuff, watch your film or if you want to buy me coffee, I would love to hear from you too.
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