RECOGNITION
2021 | Academy Award® Nomination - Best Documentary Short Subject
2021 | Cinema Eye Honors, Outstanding Nonfiction Short
2020 | DOC NYC, Directing Award Short List: Shorts
2019 | AFI Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize Documentary Short
2019 | New Orleans Film Festival, Best Documentary Short
2019 | BlackStar Film Festival, Best Documentary Short
2019 | Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Best Documentary Short
2019| IDA Documentary Awards Nominee - Best Short Documentary

PRESS
The New Yorker 2021 Oscars Predictions: Who Should Win Versus Who Will Win
The New Yorker The Best of the Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts
Time 8 Oscar-Nominated Movies and Performances You May Not Have Seen - But Should
Salon How "A Love Song for Latasha" disrupts and decolonizes documentary filmmaking about Black trauma
Soho House Awards Season Picks: Sophia Nahli Allison in conversation with Lola Adesioye
Variety Netflix Oscar Nominees Enjoy Massive Viewership Bump (EXCLUSIVE) - A Love Song For Latasha “saw a staggering 1802% increase in new viewers.”
Variety ‘A Love Song for Latasha’ Celebrates a Life Long Overshadowed by Its Ending
Huff Post/Black Voices Sophia Nahli Allison’s ‘A Love Song For Latasha’ Captures The Fullness Of Black Girlhood
The LA Times The L.A. story behind Oscar nominee 'A Love Song for Latasha'
Essence Doing The Work: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Six Years After #OscarsSoWhite
Variety Oscars Predictions: Best Documentary Short – Netflix Could Dominate With Sophia Loren, ‘Latasha’ and ‘Speed Cubers’
Academy Awards - 93rd Oscars Shortlists
Variety ‘A Love Song for Latasha’ Director Sophia Nahli Allison: ‘We Are Building the Future’
The LA Times Latasha Harlins’ name sparked an L.A. movement. 30 years later, her first memorial is up
The Hollywood Reporter How the Political Climate Could Boost Certain Films This Oscar Season
Black Girl Nerds Director Sophia Nahli Allison on Netflix’s ‘A Love Song for Latasha’
IndieWire A Love Song for Latasha’ Is a Visionary Celebration of One Black Girl’s Too-Short Life
The New York Times What the ‘Cuties’ Critics Can’t See: The Complexities of Black Girlhood
Vice ‘A Love Song For Latasha’ Urges You To Remember Black Lives, Not Just Black Death
The New York Times Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here
The Grio Netflix to debut heartbreaking doc ‘A Love Song for Latasha’
Esquire Latasha Harlins' Death Fueled the 1991 LA Riots. A New Documentary Celebrates Her Life
Decider Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Love Song for Latasha’ on Netflix, a Heartbreaking Short Documentary About a Girl’s Life Cut Tragically Short
Moveable Fest Interview Sophia Nahli Allison on a Life Restored in “A Love Song for Latasha”
Bustle Don’t Sleep on A Love Song For Latasha on Netflix
Hyperallergic A Tribute to Latasha Harlins From Those Who Knew Her Best
Newsweek Who is Latasha Harlins? Netflix Doc Remembers Teen In 'A Love Song for Latasha'
Teen Vogue - “A Love Song For Latasha” Film Exposes The Danger in Racial Bias
Time Out Los Angeles
Indie Wire - 2020 Sundance Preview: 10 Must-See Short Films in Park City
Essence - Sundance 2020 … What We’re Excited to See
AFI Fest Winners - Grand Jury Documentary PrizeInternational Documentary Association Awards Nominee
New Orleans Film Festival Awards - Best Documentary Short Ava DuVernay’s Film Collective Opens New Theater with Wide-Ranging Curated Series
BlackStar Film Festival - Best Short Documentary
AFIDOCS “Announcing AFI DOCS 2019 Award Winners”
AFROPUNK “New Doc Reminds Us That Latasha Harlins’ Life Mattered”
PDN “Girlhood, Interrupted: Documentary Honors the Life of Slain 15-year-old Latasha Harlins”
AFIDOCS
Shadow and Act
Essence “Tribeca Film Festival: 20 Titles That We Can't Wait To See”

FILM FESTIVALS
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020
World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival 2019
International Premiere Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019
Official Selection AFI Film Festival 2019
Official Selection New Orleans Film Festival 2019
Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2019
Official Selection Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2019
Official Selection Reel Sisters of the Diaspora 2019
Official Selection Camden International Film Festival 2019
Official Selection AFI DOCS 2019
Official Selection Meet The Press Film Festival with AFI 2019
Official Selection Indy Shorts International Film Festival 2019
Official Selection Nashville Film Festival 2019

DISCUSSIONS
African American Policy Forum 4/1/2021 “Her Dream Deferred” in conversation with Kimberle Crenshaw
Very Opinionated with Soledad O'Brien 3/30/2021
LACMA - 2/4/2021 ‘A Love Song For Latasha’ and a post-screening conversation with director Sophia Nahli Allison and artist Calida Rawles
MoMA // 2.11.2020-2.23.2020 The Future of Film Is Female, Part 3
A Long Walk Home // 1.9.2021 -Screening and Discussion for Black girls.
UCLA // 1.7.2021 Black Alumni Association Social Justice Summit
Film Independent - 12/11/2020 Screening and Q&A of A Love Song for Latasha & Giving Voice
DocNYC - 12/8/2020 Conversations with “Short List: Shorts” Filmmakers
USC Cinematic Arts - 11/10/2020 Live Screening and Q&A
Social Justice Summit 2020 - 10/18/2020 John Ridley in conversation with filmmakers Ursula Liang and Sophia Nahli Allison
Bronx Documentary Center - 10/16/2020 Women’s Film Conference. In Conversation with Director Sophia Nahli Allison and creative producer Janice Duncan
IDA International Documentary Association - 10/3/2020 Getting Real 2020 Conference: panel “Breaking It Down: The Interview”
California African American Museum - 10/1/2020 Netflix Talk Back: In conversation with Sophia Nahli Allison, curator Erin Christovale, and curator Jheanelle Brown.
Black Women’s Film Conference - 9/25/2020 Love Songs for the Lost: a conversation with Sophia Nahli Allison and Keisha Rae Witherspoon.
Screening: Ja’Tovia Gary and Sophia Nahli Allison with Maori Karmael Holmes - 11/ 20/2019 Institute of Contemporary Art UPenn “Colored People Time: Banal Presents”
BlackStar Film Festival Live discussion with Sophia Nahli Allison, Insecure producer Deniese Davis, artist Lynnée Denise, Surviving R. Kelly executive producer dream hampton, and scholar Marcus Anthony Hunter, on the links between visual art, collective memory, and Black liberation.
Array 360 Inaugural Film Series - 10/19/2020 “Reclaiming Narratives”

SCREENINGS
MoMA // 2.11.2020-2.23.2020 The Future of Film Is Female, Part 3
BlackStar Film Festival Hosts Exclusive Screenings on Anniversary of L.A. Uprisings
May 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Followed by a live conversation at 5pm ET on May 3rd
between Sophia Nahli Allison, Insecure producer Deniese Davis, artist Lynnée Denise, Surviving R. Kelly executive producer dream hampton, and scholar Marcus Anthony Hunter, on the links between visual art, collective memory, and Black liberation.
Temple University Film and Media Arts Department - Feb 24, 2020
Nickelodeon Theatre “Black Stories: Real Fiction” - Feb 12, 2020
Array 360 Inaugural Film Series “Reclaiming Narratives” - 2019
Institute of Contemporary Art at UPenn “Colored People Time: Banal Presents”- 2019
University of Mississippi The Center for the Study of Southern Culture "Radical Reimagining’s in Documentary Filmmaking” - 2019
Postponed Screenings
The Newark Museum of Art screening with Collective Inheritance: Past, Present & Future - May 14, 2020 (POSTPONED)
BAM “Space Is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film, the Sequel” - April 9, 2020 (POSTPONED)
Black Women's Film Conference at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - April 4, 2020 (POSTPONED)
Spelman College March 18, 2020 (POSTPONED)
WACO Theatre Center Los Angeles - March 15, 2020 (POSTPONED)