Featured Speaker — All Access 2020:
WARREN P. SONODA
Filmmaker
BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Warren P. Sonoda is known for directing his features Coopers’ Camera, Swearnet: The Movie, Ham & Cheese, the iconic TV shows Trailer Park Boys, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Murdoch Mysteries and over 160 music videos, 70 episodes of TV and 11 feature films.
Along with his 2019 BAFTA Award win for Odd Squad (2019), two Best Directing Daytime Emmy Nominations for Odd Squad (2018, 2017), a 2015 DGC Best Directing Nomination for Trailer Park Boys, 4 MuchMusic Video Award and 2 CCMA wins, he also received the Queen's Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canadian cinema, knocked Martin Scorsese out of the Guinness Book of World Records, and was the first person of colour and youngest DGC member elected as the Directors Guild of Canada’s National Director Division Chair.
He’s thrilled to be unveiling his new passion-project feature film Things I Do For Money and two episodes of the new 1-hour sci-fi hip-hop drama Utopia Falls for Hulu in 2020.