Bio

Sonya is an award-winning producer, who’s latest film “The Kiss” has won the 2010 Dendy Award for Best Short Film and has been nominated for an AFI Award.  Sonya has worked as a visual effects coordinator on Hollywood’s “Charlotte’s Web” and her experience ranges from writing, producing and production managing television, drama, documentary, animation, mobile phone content and feature films. In 2006 her short film “The 9:13” was nominated for Best Short Fiction by the prestigious AFI Awards and the Film Critics Circle and screened at film festivals internationally. Sonya has a feature film and two TV series in development.

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Professional Experience

 

Current                        Producer – feature film in script development

                                    Writer Sian Dalua

 

Jan-Jun 2010                Supervising Producer – “The Thing About Dolphins” -             $15,000 FilmLab Short Film.  Producer Megan Huitema, Director Matt Vesely.

 

23 May - 11 June 10     Producer Internship – “City Homicide” Channel 7 Melbourne

                                    Producer Richard Jasek

 

Mar-May 2010              Producer Attachment – “Red Dog” $8.5M feature film

                                    Producers Julie Ryan, Nelson Woss. Director Kriv Stenders

 

2009                             Producer – “The Kiss” $180,000 SAFC/Screen Australia funded short

                                    Writer/Director Ashlee Page. 

                                    Winner -  2010 Dendy Awards for Best Short Film

                                    Nominee – 2010 AFI Award Best Short Fiction Film

 

Apr 07 – Dec 09           Producer/Writer/Director – Logic Films

                                    Writer/Producer “Feeling Good” Lifestyle Program Series 9,10,11 Channel 9

Writer/Producer/Director of TVCs and Corporates for clients such as Saab Systems, Suzuki, Adelaide City Council, Diabetes SA, Clipsal

 

Feb 08                          Judge on the 2008 Aust Film Comm/MRC Raw Nerve Script Assessment Panel

 

May-Sep 07                  Supervising Producer – Aust Film Comm/MRC Raw Nerve Initiative

                                    “Looped” by Sarah Crowest, Winner Best Screenplay Tropfest 2008

                                    “Hard Rubbish” by Adam Lemmey, Nominated 10 awards SASSA 2008

                                    “Mona” by Charlotte Hamlyn, Nominated 4 awards SASSA 2008

 

Nov 06                         Production Manager – “Swing”  $80,000 SAFC/AFF funded short

                                    Producer Louise Pascale, Director Chris Houghton

 

Sep - Oct 06                 Production Manager – $15M Bollywood feature “Love Story 2050”

 

May-Sep 06                  Visual Effects Coordinator – “Charlotte’s Web”

                                    Rising Sun Pictures

 

Jan-Mar 06                   Producer – “La Musica Fantastica”

                                    SAFC/mNet/ABC $15,000 miniSeries initiative - Mobile phone content

 

February 06                  Production Manager – “Aunty Joan’s Friendly Grotto”

                                    Raw Nerve $3,000 fund  - Director Irena Dangov

 

 

 

 

May 04 – Aug 05          Producer/Writer – “The 9:13” Short film (15 mins)

                                    SAFC $25,000 Short Film Fund – Director Matthew Phipps

                                    Nominated 2006 AFI Best Short Fiction

                                    Nominated 2006 Film Critics Circle Best Short Fiction                           

Screened at many international film festivals

                                    Winner Best Actor – SA Short Screen Awards 2006

 

Dec 04 – Jan 05           Production Manager – Documentary “Joyfest”

                                    Michael Weatherhead – Soultrek Films

 

January 2004               Producer - Documentary on Refugees “Stories for Now”

(24 mins), Director – Peter Thurmer

 

August 2003                 3^rd Assistant Director/ Attachment as 2^nd Assistant Director

                                    “The Widower” (55 mins), MusicArtsDance Films

 

July 2003                      Production Co-ordinator/Extras Casting (pre-production)

                                    “The Widower” (55 mins),  MusicArtsDance Films

                                   

October 2002               Selected to develop feature film script through SAFC

                                    Script Incubator, Stage 1.

 

March 2002                  Selected for Documentary Incubator to develop documentary for SBS “Australia by Numbers”.

 

2000-2001                                          Production Assistant

Duo Art Productions (Helen Leake)

 

July-Aug 2000              Production Coordinator/Extras Casting

“One Night The Moon” (55 mins), 

MusicArtsDance Films/Rachel Perkins

Winner of AFI Awards, screened on ABC TV,

                                    Invited to screen at many prestigious international

                                    film festivals including Sundance.

 

July 2000                      Writer/Producer/Director

                                    2 x 15 sec TVCs for Aust. School of Meditation - Channel 10

 

April 2000                     Production Assistant - “Nijinsky” (55 mins), 

                                    MusicArtsDance Films/Paul Cox

                                    Nominated for AFI Award for Best Documentary

                                   

Feb-April 2000              Production Assistant

                                    Mills Street Productions

 

June-Dec 1999             Production Assistant

                                    Network 8 Digital

 

 

 

 

Tertiary Qualification

 

2000-2001                     Advanced Certificate IV in Media Arts Production Skills (MAPS)

Hamilton College.

For my graduating year, I co-produced/wrote/directed the first Australian student full-length feature film “and she said…” which had a sell-out season at Adelaide Fringe 2002.

 

2002-2003                     Bachelor of Media, Adelaide University

 

2005                             Certificate IV in Small Business Management

                                    Adelaide TAFE

 

 

 

Referees

 

 

Julie Ryan

Producer

Cyan Films

Mob: 0418 802 419

 

 

Paul Curran

Logic Films

Ph: 8232 8580

 

 

Geoffrey Reed

Geoffrey Reed Communications

Ph: 8347 0555

Mob: 0417 859 576

 

 

Tom Molnar

2OC Productions

Ph: 7127 7840

Mob: 0419 144 870