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Monique Sorgen
[edit]Monique Sorgen | |
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| Citizenship | American and French |
| Alma mater | UCLA |
| Occupation | Writer-Director |
| Website | https://sorgenm.wixsite.com/moniquesorgen |
Monique Sorgen is a French-American film and TV director and a screenwriter, author and playwright.[1]
Early Life:
[edit]Born in San Francisco to parents Michael Sorgen, a civil rights lawyer, and Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt (née Levy), a French professor at UC Berkeley, Monique was raised in both San Francisco and Paris, speaking both French and English. Her parents divorced and remarried. She graduated early from Berkeley High School, and then moved to Los Angeles at 17, where she majored in Theater at University of California, Los Angeles, and graduated Magna Cum Laude. She has three siblings, Valerie Braimah, Jeremy Sorgen, and Zach Sorgen.
Career:
[edit]After graduating for UCLA, Sorgen worked as a directors’ assistant to Kim Friedman on network television shows for NBC, CBS, and UPN. She made a short film “Pants on Fire” starring Cress Williams and Ronny Cox, which was distributed internationally on airlines and television networks, including on ARTE in France and Germany.
She wrote for television series “Blind Date” starring Roger Lodge and “Don’t Forget Your Toothbush” starring Mark Curry, as well asKimora: Life in the Fab Lane for E! Entertainment. In 2016, Sorgen created and was the series director on “No Grey Skies” for FashionOne TV.[2]
Sorgen is one of the hosts of the Writer’s Guild of America West's podcast, 3rd & Fairfax [3]. She has interviewed over 40 writers of film and television, including Aline Brosh McKenna, Pete Holmes, Danny McBride, Seth Meyers, Brittani Nichols, Gina Prince Bythewood and Reggie Rock.
In 2019, Sorgen wrote and directed “Sorry, Not Sorry”[4][5] starring Wallace Langham, Jessica Oyelowo, and M. Emmet Walsh.[6] [7] The film won multiple festival awards [8][9] and was released on Omeleto.com, where it won the Best of Omeleto award. In 2021, her film “Rock a Bye Baby”, starring Mo McCrae and Scott Krinsky, won multiple awards, including first place at Just For Laughs “Eat My Shorts” competition [10], before being released on Film Shortage. In 2023, she released her award-winning puppet sitcom web series, "Codependent Socks!"[11] starring the voices of Wallace Langham, Reiko Ayelsworth, and Zainab Johnson, on KoldOpen in the United States, and Flixxo in Argentina. Sorgen also won awards for the short drama she directed, “Random Check” written by and starring Sara AlRoshoud, with performances by Reid Miller and Sandra Saad.[12]
Sorgen is an alumna of the Sony TV Diverse Directors Program.[13]
Author
[edit]In 2013, Sorgen self-published the novel How Long You Should Wait to Have Sex. In 2017, one of Sorgen's short stories appeared in the anthology “Empower: Mind Over Matter.”
Playwright
[edit]In 2022, her One-Act play “Gaslighting” was published by Next Stage Press in Volume 2 of the one-act play compilation “Guilded”.[14]
Advocacy
[edit]Along with Maria Burton, Susan Dynner, and Nandi Bowe, Sorgen is a co-founder of GenXX[15], an initiative to raise awareness and create opportunities for the women directors of Generation X, who lost out on opportunities between the sexism they faced pre #MeToo, and the ageism they faced after it.
Awards and Nominations
[edit]Films
[edit]| Year | Festival | Award | Project | Notes | |
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| 2024 | American Pavilion Emerging Directors Showcase at Cannes | Alumni | Lying is Complicated | Nominated | |
| 2024 | International Mobile Film Festival | Best Short Film | Honorable Mention | ||
| 2023 | Blackmagic Collective Film Festival | Best Short Film | Nominated | ||
| 2024 | Apulia Film Festival | Best Original Idea | Codependent Socks! | Nominated | |
| 2023 | Bilbao Seriesland | Top Amets
Amets Best Comedy Amets Best Idea |
Nominated | ||
| 2023 | Festival Angaelika | Best Series | Won | ||
| 2023 | Broad Humor Festival | Best Webseries | Won | ||
| 2023 | All the Laughs - Golden Pitcher Awards | Best Webseries | Nominated | ||
| 2023 | Calabasas Film Festival | Best Short Film | Random Check | Won | |
| 2022 | American Pavilion Emerging Directors Showcase at Cannes | Best Short Film | Rock a Bye Baby | Finalist | |
| 2021 | Burbank International Film Festival | Best Short Film | Nominated | ||
| 2021 | Just For Laughs Eat My Shorts | First Place Short | Won | ||
| 2021 | All the Laughs - Golden Pitcher Awards | Best Short Film | Won | ||
| 2021 | Indie Shorts | Best Comedy | Nominated | ||
| 2021 | Sedona International Film Festival | Director's Choice - Best Short Comedy | Won | ||
| 2021 | Equal Footing Film Festival | Best Short Film | Honorable Mention | ||
| 2020 | Best of Omeleto | Fan Favorite - April | Sorry Not Sorry | Won | |
| 2019 | Coronado Island Film Festival | Audience Award - Best Short Film | Won | ||
| 2019 | Just For Laughs Eat My Shorts | Best Short Film | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | Cordillera Film Festival | Best Short Film | Runner-up | ||
| 2019 | Vero Beach Film Festival | Audience Award - Best Short Comedy | Won | ||
| 2019 | Vero Beach Film Festival | Jury Award - Best Short Comedy | Won | ||
| 2019 | American Pavilion Emerging Directors Showcase at Cannes | Best Short Film | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | That Film Festival | Best Short Film | Finalist |
References
[edit]- ^ Stories, Local (2019-04-16). "Meet Monique Sorgen". Voyage LA Magazine | LA City Guide. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
- ^ "Writer's Corner: Monique Sorgen". Ms. In The Biz. 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
- ^ "3rd & Fairfax: The WGAW Podcast - 2022". www.wga.org. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
- ^ Editor (2019-04-05). "Interview With Monique Sorgen – "While movie making is never easy, there's also a magic that happens when you make a movie"". FILM & TELEVISION BUSINESS. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Dixon, Jim (2019-05-08). "Independent Filmmaker Monique Sorgen Is SORRY NOT SORRY". Film Inquiry. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
- ^ "Short Film - Sorry, Not Sorry". The DreamCage. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ Dr. Erin Fall Haskell (2019-06-25). GMLA Live June 25. Retrieved 2024-12-14 – via YouTube.
- ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (2019-04-16). "American Pavilion To Celebrate Diversity At Cannes With Emerging Filmmaker Showcase". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ LaBaff, Mary Schenkel, Stephanie (2019-06-13). "Wine + Film Fest kickoff well-received all over town". Vero News. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "JUST FOR LAUGHS EAT MY SHORTS | Just For Laughs". www.hahaha.com. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ Codependent Socks! (TV Series 2023– ) - Awards - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-12-14 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ scotthgilliland (2023-08-19). "Random Check ★★★★★ HollyShorts Film Festival 2023". Upcoming On Screen. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ Pedersen, Erik (2019-12-16). "Sony TV's Diverse Directors Program Has Its Class Of 2019-20". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "GUILDED". Next Stage Press. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
- ^ "Meet Monique Sorgen". canvasrebel.com. Retrieved 2024-12-16.