Sonya Dunn is an emerging new voice in the film and entertainment industry. Sonya is the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Arlington Independent Media, a nonprofit media corporation, cable channel and training center for media content creators in film, cable and web programming. Currently, she is overseeing the development and implementation of a radio station to provide curriculum and training in sound editing, music creation, and audio content programming.
Sonya operates and manages a full-service production company, JEMH Entertainment, that has several interactive and transmedia projects in development: feature length films, novels, graphic novels, websites, plays, musicals, and scripted and unscripted programming. Her film The Bedroom was her directorial debut, which was selected and screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It also received official selections in ten other film festivals, including, but not limited to the Pan-African Film Festival, LA Femme International Film Festival, Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival, and Sista Doin’ It For Themselves Film Festival.
She also was a semi-finalist in the Slamdance Screenwriting Competition and a finalist for the Best Screenplay at the LA Femme International Film Festival.
Currently, Sonya is at the helm of a women initiative transmedia project called Distaff. Distaff consists of several media platforms integrated in a digital hub network, In Her Words, which highlights the accomplishments and advancement of women in media. Also, Sonya has launched a web channel underrepresented groups within the disability community called Enable Channel.
Sonya Dunn holds a master’s degree from American University in Producing Film, Video and Digital Media. She will complete her MBA in Media Entertainment Management in 2016. Sonya is a military spouse and the mother four children (two with autism).
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