about
about
Director Sonia Kennebeck and Producer Ines Hofmann Kanna are a filmmaking team and the founders of production company Codebreaker Films. They are based in Brooklyn, NY and Oakland, CA and have been producing award-winning non-fiction media for over twenty years, now focusing on documentaries about national security and human rights issues.
Sonia Kennebeck
sk@codebreakerfilms.com
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Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries and more than 50 investigative reports. NATIONAL BIRD, her first feature-length film, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2016 and was also selected for Tribeca, Sheffield, and IDFA.
Foreign Policy magazine recognized Sonia Kennebeck as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2016, and she was also selected as one of
25 New Faces of Independent Film 2016
by Filmmaker Magazine.
In March 2017, NATIONAL BIRD received the prestigious Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize
that is awarded to one documentary a year “that defends the public interest, advances or promotes social justice, or illuminates a more just vision of society.”
Sonia Kennebeck received a master’s degree in international affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.
She was born in Malacca, Malaysia, and lives in New York, NY.
Ines Hofmann Kanna
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Ines Hofmann Kanna has been producing and directing film and television projects for 25 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.
As a freelancer, she continued to produce and direct TV series for cable and public television and filmed in places as close as Iowa and as far as Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
Ines Hofmann Kanna 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.
For the past ten years, she has been focusing on consulting and producing feature documentaries with independent filmmakers.
Ines Hofmann Kanna received a master’s degree in Mass Communications from Emerson College in Boston, MA.
She was born and raised in East Germany and lives in Oakland, CA.