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Sofia Baquedano

award-winning author and filmmaker

About the author

Sofia Pires Baquedano is a Brazilian-Spanish award winning author and filmmaker.

At twenty one, Sofia published her debut novel titled “this is my worst nightmare please be nice to me” in July 2024. 

In 2025, Sofia co-founded Brazilian production company “Souvenir Filmes” which specializes in both feature and short films.

She graduated in Communications and Film, and holds a certificate from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles.

Sofia has directed three short films and worked on many others in roles such as producer, first assistant director, editor, and more.

As well as film, Sofia has worked as a screenwriting intern for a popular Brazilian television show.

This is My Worst Nightmare Please Be Nice to Me

"We have the dire need to love. To make our lives gorgeous and fulfilling, to love and live and be happy in spite of the absurdness of it all." Sunny is a high school teacher in her late twenties navigating the hospitalization of her best friend Charlie. As a narrator who feels like an observer in her own life, Sunny examines what her life without Charlie might have been like and what life with him has meant for her. The story moves through time non-linearly, exploring Charlie’s family, his and Sunny’s mutual friend Louis, and Sunny’s past and present. Mourning for someone who is still alive and a past that has been left unresolved, Sunny tells her story, straying away from the darkest aspects of the past with witty comic relief. this is my worst nightmare, please be nice to me is a tale of love, its pains and joys, belonging, and finding trouble in one’s brain, whether literally or figuratively.