Sophie Hyde’s new film “Jimpa,” which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews, began as a deeply personal story about her experience as the child of a gay father and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) says casting “a version of yourself” is not an easy task. “It’s very ...

Hyde, one of the breakouts of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Artists First for management. A queer trans nonbinary actor from Australia, Mason-Hyde stars opposite Olivia Colman ...

Sophie Hyde, winner of the World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic for 52 Tuesdays (2014 Sundance Film Festival), returns with an expansive family portrait centered on Jimpa (John Lithgow), an aging ...

The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival finds filmmakers tackling prickly material with a warmer lens — or avoiding it altogether.

Directed and co-written by Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’s Sophie Hyde, Jimpa is a tale of wish fulfillment on multiple levels — often to its detriment. The first level is its plot, which ...

Such a sentiment perfectly captures the complicated and lovable characters in Sophie Hyde’s sophomore feature, “Jimpa.” “Jimpa” is an original and earnest tragicomedy that follows ...

Jim calls himself Frances' Jimpa, rather than grandpa. Advertisement Mason-Hyde is the child of Jimpa director and co-writer Sophie Hyde, who has a father named Jim to whom she dedicated the movie.

Sophie Hyde, winner of the World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic for 52 Tuesdays (2014 Sundance Film Festival), returns with an expansive family portrait centered on Jimpa (John Lithgow), an aging ...