Sonia Lowman believes that the right story, told with care, can build empathy and transform human consciousness.

For nearly twenty years, she has built her career at the intersection of two disciplines rarely held by the same person: the artistry of documentary filmmaking and the architecture of institutional storytelling. She has filmed amidst the wreckage of war in Ukraine and the desperation of maternity wards in South Sudan; in Kansas classrooms built to honor unsung heroes; in boardrooms and briefing rooms where the stakes were policy, not just plot. Wherever she has worked, her intention has always been the same: illuminating the connective tissue of humanity. 

Her films have found their way into homes across the world — acquired by Netflix, NBC Peacock, PBS — landing not as distant headlines, but as intimate portraits of the people living them. Her first film, TEACH US ALL, traced the unfinished promise of school desegregation, sixty years after the Little Rock Nice, and stood beside Ava DuVernay's 13TH as a companion call to conscience. Her award-winning follow-up, BLACK BOYS, set out to reclaim the full, complicated, luminous humanity of Black men and boys in America, and found itself in the hands of NFL locker rooms, Head Start classrooms, and a campaign with over a billion impressions. And her docu-series, WOMEN WHO RISE — narrated by Sienna Miller, scored by Ben Harper — carried the courage of women on the frontlines of war and disaster to audiences who might otherwise never have witnessed their indomitable strength. 

But long before Sonia stood behind the camera, she was building the scaffolding that makes stories travel — writing speeches for humanitarian CEOs, designing youth diplomacy initiatives for the International Monetary Fund across the Middle East, writing policy papers on the gender impacts of development banks, and shaping communications for organizations moving millions of dollars toward people who needed it most. That grounding in strategy, policy and institutional trust is not separate from her filmmaking — it is what makes her filmmaking work. She knows how to build a story, and she knows how to build the campaign, the partnerships and the funding that carry that story into the rooms where change can happen.

Sonia holds a Master's degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University. She calls Los Angeles home, but her work has taken her all over the world. She is, above all, in pursuit of the same question every project has asked her to answer: whose humanity have we stopped seeing — and what will it take to see them again?