Sophia Nahli Allison

Sophia Nahli Allison (born 1987) is an American documentary filmmaker and photographer. Her documentary short A Love Song for Latasha (2019) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). It debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Allison directed and co-wrote the 2021 HBO Max special Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground. Allison was born in Los Angeles, California in 1987. Her father died when she was 15. She earned a BA in photojournalism from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in visual communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.She was a MacDowell Fellow in 2019. She was also a 2020 United States Artists fellow.