Blue Prose is an independent film and TV production company based in Santa Fe, NM, run by Siena Sofia Bergt. It specializes in writing, producing, directing, and editing stories of the surreal and magically real, and has contributed to four feature films and one limited series to date.
Blue Prose Productions started as a personal venture aimed at telling stories of loss, mourning and the feelings of unreality and fear that accompany them. While our scope has expanded since then, our values have stayed the same: we approach each project (whether it be feature-length or miniseries, documentary or narrative) as a way of communicating something human and personal. We are especially passionate about stories told by femme, Indigenous, queer, and other marginalized voices.
Siena Sofia Bergt - Founder/Owner
Siena Sofia Bergt is a director, writer, and native of Agua Fria, New Mexico. The daughter of two painters, she trained as an actor for over a decade before finding herself drawn back to visual art through film. A mentorship with the late cult film director and Barney Miller co-creator Ted Flicker cemented her love for filmmaking. She made her narrative feature debut “OPIA” while completing a degree in Film Studies at Columbia University—becoming the first student in the school’s history to shoot a feature as an undergraduate. Siena’s explorations into marginal, rural, and Uncanny storytelling modes have elicited stylistic comparisons ranging from Juan Rulfo’s “Pedro Paramo” to Samuel Fuller’s “Shock Corridor”. When not writing screenplays, she works as a fundraiser for arts nonprofits and occasionally publishes film analysis; her paper “Colored Perspectives: Shading World War II Onscreen” received the Andrew Sarris Memorial Award for Film Criticism.