
National Bird
Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections, traumas, and responses—of three American military veterans whose lives have been shaken by the roles they played in this controversial method of attack. Executive produced by Wim Wenders and Errol Morris.
Picked up by: FilmRise (release date TBD)
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Sonia Kennebeck, Producer/Director
Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist who has worked for CNN and for German public television’s (ARD) highest-rated and longest-running current affairs program, Panorama. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she runs her own production company, Ten Forward Films, that makes films about international politics and human rights. Her most recent documentary about the German brothel industry, Sex – Made in Germany, was an Official Selection of the Montreal World Film Festival 2013 and the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo 2014. Kennebeck has over 12 years of production experience. She received a Master’s degree in International Affairs from American University in Washington, D.C. and was born in Malacca, Malaysia. National Bird is her first feature-length documentary film.
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Ines Hofmann Kanna, Producer
Ines Hofmann Kanna has worked as television producer and director in the United States for the past 20 years. She began her career at Boston’s PBS station, WGBH, where she worked for ten years, most notably on the hit series Antiques Roadshow. She has also worked as Supervising Producer for ITVS, guiding more than thirty filmmakers from production to broadcast, and acted as Series Producer on two ITVS documentary series, Global Voices and Women of the World. She now focuses on making social-issue documentaries with independent filmmakers from around the world. Ines has a Master’s degree in mass communication from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She was born and raised in East Germany.
Global Climate Change
Environment Ethics
Environment Justice
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