Sonya Pemberton, Executive Producer/Managing Director, Genepool Productions (Australia)

Sonya Pemberton is one of Australia’s leading documentary writers, directors and executive producers. She has written and directed over 45 hours of television, specializing in science documentary for the international market. Her films have won over 30 awards, and she has been three times honoured with the prestigious Eureka Prize for Science Journalism (2003, 2004, 2008). Sonya was Head of Specialist Factual at ABC Television from 2004–2006. She was responsible for the Science, Natural History, Indigenous, Religion & Ethics, and Education departments, commissioning over 300 hours of factual programs. Sonya also executive produced the multi-award winning Crude (ABC/History Channel). Over the past three years, Sonya has written, directed and co-produced nine hours of acclaimed documentary, including Angels and Demons (ABC), Catching Cancer (ABC/NGI) and Immortal (SBS/NGI/Smithsonian). Immortal won Best Science and Nature at Jackson Hole, 2011. In 2011, Sonya joined forces with Cordell Jigsaw Productions to form a joint venture company, Genepool Productions, specializing in quality science programming.

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— Kim Shillinglaw, Commissioning Editor, Science and Natural History, BBC
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2010 World Congress of Science & Factual Producers : Melbourne, Australia December 1-4