Sonia Kennebeck

Filmmaker

Co-Director, Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call

Sonia Kennebeck is an award-winning director, writer, producer, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her directing credits include critically-acclaimed feature films Reality Winner (SXSW 2021), Enemies of the State (TIFF 2020), and National Bird (Berlinale Special 2016). Her work screened worldwide at major festivals and in theaters, and has been widely distributed through Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, PBS, ARD, Comcast, New York Times OpDocs, and others. She received a Chicken & Egg Award, the Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award, Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize, and an Emmy nomination. Her work has been supported repeatedly by most major film foundations, including Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, International Documentary Association, and the Reva & David Logan Foundation.