Sonia Kennebeck Filmmaker

Sonia Kennebeck is an independent filmmaker with 18 years of directing and producing experience. Her most recent feature documentary United States vs. Reality Winner premiered at SXSW 2021, and her documentary thriller Enemies of the State was selected for TIFF 2020.

Kennebeck’s first feature-length film National Bird premiered at Berlinale 2016, received the Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize and a 2018 Emmy-nomination for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary.

Foreign Policy magazine recognized Kennebeck as one of 100 Leading Global Thinkers, she was selected as one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine, and DOC NYC included her in the 40 Under 40 list of documentary filmmakers. She is the 2021 recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award.

Sonia Kennebeck is a first-generation college graduate who worked full-time while completing her master’s degree in international affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. She was born in Malacca, Malaysia.