The Wrong Idea

Directed by Sophia Bennett Holmes

Writer: Sophia Bennett Holmes
Producers: Vindhya Gupta, Cade Featherstone, Bianca Di Marco
Editors: Sophia Bennett Holmes, Cade Featherstone
Cinematographer: Melanie Akoka
Costume Designer: Kindall Almond
Production Designer: Regina Melady

Logline: A bird escapes from a zoo and flies through New York City, looking into people’s windows and trying to figure out what it means to be human.

Runtime: 17:15

Grad Film
sbh419@nyu.edu

Sophia Bennett Holmes is a writer, director and cinematographer from Brooklyn, New York. She studied fine art at Cooper Union and graduated from New York University in 2024 with an MFA in Film. She finds inspiration reading online forums where people wonder whether or not they're normal.

Her work has been featured on NoBudge, Pitchfork, Stereogum and more. Her short films have been selected for festivals such as Woodstock Film Festival, Nitehawk Shorts Festival, and the Los Angeles, London and Toronto Lift Off Film Festivals. She has made music videos for artists including Washed Out, Frankie Cosmos and Finn Keane, and she won the Nestor Almendros Award for Cinematography for her work on The Dalles, which debuted at Sundance 2023 in the Shorts program.