Sonia

Sonia Godding is a film-maker and TV editor who has experience working for international broadcasters, independent production houses and distribution companies. Having studied at one of Toronto's premiere film schools, Sonia went on to work in numerous post production companies before settling at Nelvana - North America's largest animation distributor. (2001) While at Nelvana, she moonlit on several independent projects including short films, music videos and documentaries. Favouring the latter she worked as the Associate Editor on CBC's A Deathly Silence and WTSN Profile series before moving on to Canada's pioneering music channel - MuchMusic. (2003) Here, she produced and directed a series of Black History Month promos while contributing to a variety of the channels programs. In 2005, Sonia left MuchMusic to work on SunTV's Echo - the channels premiere multi-ethnic biography series. The program highlighted diverse Torontionians making a difference. Recently, Sonia made the move to London where she has been freelancing in entertainment and factual programming for various production companies and broadcasters including Endemol and BBC. Sonia is currently in post production with her first documentary 'The Return Leg', which was shot in London and Ghana. Her second film 'Adopted ID' is about a transracially adopted Canadian who returns to Haiti in search of her biological family. This is Sonia's first feature length film.