Sonia Kennebeck
Director / Producer
skennebeck@tenforwardfilms.com
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Sonia Kennebeck has been an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist for over ten years. Her films primarily deal with international politics and human rights issues, and have received awards and critical acclaim.
Her most recent documentary Sex - Made in Germany about the German prostitution industry received excellent reviews and was in the Official Selection of the Montreal World Film Festival 2013.
Sonia started her career as a broadcast producer in Washington, DC and worked five years as an investigative reporter for Germany's highest-rated and longest-running current affairs program Panorama. She has a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the American University in Washington, DC.
Filmography
Documentaries
| 2013: | Sex - Made in Germany (45 min.)
ARD, Co-Director/Writer/Producer New York Festivals Silver Medal 2014 Official Selection Montreal World Film Festival 2013 |
| 2011: | Fukushima: The Nuclear Catastrophe (30 min.)
ARD, Co-Director/Writer/Producer |
| 2010: | Working for 3 Euros an Hour: Undercover Report about Low-Paying Jobs (30 min.)
NDR, On-Air-Reporter/Writer/Producer |
| 2009: | 121 Days of Fear: The Hansa Stavanger Crew Captured by Pirates (30 min.)
ARD, Co-Director/Writer/Producer |
| Hansa Stavanger: Exclusive Interview with the Captain (30 min.)
ARD, Co-Director/Writer/Producer |
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| 2008: | The Men of the Gorch Fock (60 min.)
NDR, Director/Writer/Producer |
| When Computer Gaming Becomes an Addiction (45 min.)
ARD, Co-Director/Writer/Producer |
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| 2007: | Endless Errors? Nuclear Reactor Trouble in Northern Germany (30 min.)
NDR, Co-Director/Writer/Producer |
| 2006: | September 11 – Five Years Later by Jules and Gédéon Naudet (30 min.)
ARD, Writer of the German Adaptation |
| 2004: | The Bushs – An American Dynasty (90 min.)
ARD, Lead Producer RIAS Award 2005 |
Investigative Formats
| 2006 – 2012: |
Directed and produced more than 50 investigative reports for the prestigious investigative current affairs program Panorama (6-12 min., ARD German TV, 3.5 million viewers on average),
for example covering NPD and neo-Nazis, Islamic terrorism in Germany, war veterans and PTSD, sexual abuse crimes in the Catholic Church, Bradley Manning and Wikileaks, human rights abuses in Hungary, sex trafficking in Romania |
News Formats
| 2005 – 2012: |
Written, produced and narrated numerous news reports and packages,
appeared as a live reporter on German TV |