SONIA OLENIAK is a Polish-American film director and writer. She had a hybrid childhood growing up in three cultures & countries: France, Poland, and California in the US.
Sonia’s most recent film Coral won the Grand Prix at the Warsaw Film Festival, and screened at the 61st New York Film Festival, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, International Film Festival of Oberhausen, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Film Festival, New Horizons International Film Festival, the Science New Wave Festival, and more. Sonia is a founder of Lamella Films and is currently writing and developing The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington into a feature film. She was recently featured as one of five directors shaping contemporary cinema by Vogue Polska. Sonia holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
FILMOGRAPHY (as writer-director): 2023 : Coral - short film 2020 : A Swallow - short film 2018 : Rip up your tights! - short film
2017 : Animal in metal - short film 2016 : The Red Wig - short film