There is the dream of finding funding for your film and then there's the reality of how it happens. In this episode, Leslie and Sonya break down the process of making a documentary, discuss historical Jewish stories, working in Afghanistan, finding the right editor and much more.
SONYA WINTERBERG is an award-winning writer and documentary director with roots in Finland and Germany. For most of her career, her work focused on women and children in armed conflicts and post-war situations. Sonya reported on major news events such as the aftermath of the war in Bosnia, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Hurricane Katrina and the resettlement of refugees and IDPs to villages across Afghanistan. She has been involved in a number of German television events such as the acclaimed ARD television documentary series “Kriegskinder” (Children of War, 2009) for which she co-authored the companion book. She was also on the team that conceptualized and wrote the online special for the international award-winning series “14 – Diaries of the Great War”.
Her latest works include “Dark Business. Child trafficking in the heart of Europe” (2018) and “Made in Auschwitz. The Untold Story of the Women of Block 10” (2019) that won the Best Documentary Award at LA FEMME. For the past three years she has worked on a documentary on the late AP-photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner Anja Niedringhaus who was killed on assignment in Afghanistan in 2014. Sonya lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
