Sophie Ansel

Sophie Ansel is the VR film maker for Out of the Blue , World Premiere at SXSW 2017 @The Virtual Cinema, narrated by World reknown oceanographer Sylvia Earle. Sophie Ansel is a storyteller and adventurer, delivering stories through the medium of film, Virtual Reality, journalism, books and novels, radio and documentaries. She has a deep love for exploring different cultures and defines herself as a human rights & environmentalist advocate. Her many experiences in places all over the world have led her to discover values of courage, solidarity and nobleness in people deprived of power and of voice, yet armed with an incredible resilience and will to survive. Sophie has investigated issues such as human trafficking & slavery in South East Asia and has campaigned & denounced the genocide of the Rohingya in Burma within French media coverage since 2012. To denounce the atrocities of human trafficking and boat slavery, authority corruption and human rights violations against refugees, Sophie wrote graphic novel "Lunes Birmanes" She has written 'Nous les innommables, un tabou birman', the biography of Rohingya Habib and an exploration of the genocide taking place against the Rohingya people, who she followed for six years from Burma to the detention centres of Australia. Sophie has also written 'Forbidden Tears' ('Les Larmes interdites'), the true story of a 4yr-old girl forced into resilience during Pol Pot genocide. Sophie birthed a great concern for the environment as a result of seeing the destructive activities of humans on the natural landscape as she explored oceans and tropical rainforest. After directing TV reports for the French Television in Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Thailand, Sophie co-produced with Seaview 360 a series of 5 films for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation in 2015 before working as a field producer and camera operator on the 'Chasing Coral' documentary. She produced another film in Monaco before directing VR Film "Out of the Blue" narrated by legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle.