Martina Sönksen

Martina Sönksen (she/her) is a Brazilian screenwriter and filmmaker. In 2021, she created, directed and wrote SOBREPOSTAS (2021) a 13 Episode TV Show on Canal Brasil about trans and cis female sexuality. In 2016, she co-produced the feature documentary The Karma Killings, available on Amazon Prime Video, selected by DOCS MX, DOCS Valéncia and recommended by Film Bazaar. And in 2015, she produced the short documentary The Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn (2015) was featured on Narrative.ly, chosen as Staff Pick on Vimeo and selected by Brooklyn Academy of Music/BAM to be exhibited at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Free Summer Movie 2015. As a subtitle translator she worked on projects for VICE on HBO, VICE NEWS and VICELAND. In 2022, along with her partners Juliana Curi, Lívia Cheibub and João Henrique Kurtz, she will premiere the documentary feature UYRA - The Rising Forest, with which she was a 2020 fellow at the BRIClab Film+TV and a grantee at the 2020 Doc Society Climate Story Fund. She lived in Brooklyn, NY from 2010 to 2020 and she’s currently living in São Paulo.