Bafta winning producer, Sophie Venner, has been an independent producer for over 20 years and has worked in production in high-end television, feature films, commercials, documentaries and light entertainment. She has worked with a range of leading companies, such as Ridley Scott Associates and Avalon Management Group, and has worked as a producer in Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) and France, each for 3 years.

Sophie’s previously produced films have played in competition and won prizes at Cannes, Berlinale, Telluride, Toronto, Tribeca, amongst many other A list festivals.Among them, in 2018, Sophie was UK producer on Carlos Marques Marcet’s ANCHOR AND HOPE (Spain/UK), which won Best International Film and was nominated for Best Film at the Catalan BAFTAS (Gaudis) as well as receiving a further 10 Gaudi nominations with 8 wins and 16 nominations around the globe.

In 2020, Sophie was lead producer on Chino’s Moya’s BFI supported, UNDERGODS (UK/Belgium/Estonia/Serbia/Sweden). Nominated in three categories in the UK's 2020 BIFAs, UNDERGODS sold out in UK cinemas through its first week and received rave reviews in Screen, Variety, Deadline, NY Times, The Guardian +.

In 2021, Sophie was UK producer on the ZDF Enterprises TV series, THE WINDOW (Germany/Belgium/UK), after which she founded TALETIME PICTURES to develop and produce feature film and TV series. Committed to producing brave and authentic entertainment for global audience, TALETIME secured finance to develop a slate of film and tv projects and develops IP across all formats. TALETIME has a number of TV series and feature films in development/financing and is currently in post-production on the meta noir feature film, KRYPTO (CAN/UK), starring Chloe Pirrie.

Sophie is an alumni of ACE, (Ateliers de Cinéma Européen) and ACE (TV) Series Special, programmes specialising in European co production.