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Standoff
A young girl selling lemonade fends off a crafty kidnapper.
- Type: Short Film
- Page Count: 8
- Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama, Coming of Age
- Location: Rhode Island, rural
Accolades
- The Script Lab (TSL) Free Screenplay Contest
- Quarterfinalist (15,200 entries)
Would you like to help green light this film? Please email Sonja to request the script and project overview packet.
Completed Films
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Ascension
After attempting suicide, a young cult member with dissociative identity disorder is abandoned in the desert and left to die. As she awaits her ascension into heaven, a war rages within her between the Child, the Preacher, and the Bad One.
- Type: Short Film
- Year: 2020
- Runtime: 3 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Experimental
- Budget: $1,676
- Location: Mojave Desert
Sonja wrote, directed, produced, shot, edited, and cast this film.
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Surrender Heaven
An alien abductee is caught between two worlds as her personal struggle with PTSD collides with the implanted memories meant to soothe her.
- Type: Proof-of-Concept Short Film
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 8 minutes
- Genre: Action, Drama
- Budget: $25,579
- Location: San Francisco
Sonja wrote, directed, produced, and cast this film.
Screenings
- Festival de Cannes: Court Métrage (Short Film Corner)
- Action on Film International Film Festival
Accolades
- Action on Film International Film Festival
- Nominee: Rising Action Star (Female/Short) (Teri Reeves)
- Nominee: Best Action Short of the Year
- Nominee: Best Female Filmmaker
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LOVE: As You Like It
In this adaptation of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It, a group of dynamic characters living in San Francisco struggle with what it means to love, and to be loved.
- Type: Feature Film
- Year: 2012
- Runtime: 62 minutes
- Genre: Romantic Comedy
- Budget: $16,008
- Location: San Francisco
Sonja directed, produced, edited, and cast this film.
Screenings
- Seattle True Independent Film Festival
- Fort Myers Beach Film Festival
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival
- Indie Gathering International Film Festival
- Vidiots (Santa Monica, CA)
- San Francisco State University
Accolades
- Indie Gathering International Film Festival
- Winner: Best Supporting Actor (Sullivan Jones)
- Nominee: Best Feature (Romantic Comedy)