National Bird

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.

Ines Hofmann Kanna is an independent producer with more than twenty years of experience. Her credits include Sonia Kennebeck’s Emmy-nominated National Bird (Berlin 2016) and Kennebeck’s most recent film, Enemies of the State (Tribeca 2020). She was also a consulting producer on Cecilia Aldarondo’s award-winning debut Memories of a Penitent Heart (Tribeca 2016). She began her career at Boston’s PBS station, WGBH, and has filmed in places as close as Iowa and as far as Yemen and Saudi Arabia. She also worked as Supervising Producer for ITVS, where she guided more than thirty filmmakers from production to broadcast.