
Sonya Ballantyne
Award Advisor
Sonya Ballantyne is a Swampy Cree creative based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Her work focuses on Indigenous women and girls in non-traditional film genres. She is the founder and creative director of the film production company Code Breaker Films.
Sonya won a pitch competition at imagineNATIVE, spoke at TedX Winnipeg, served as a panelist at San Diego Comic Con and New York Comic Con and is currently a full-time freelance writer and sensitivity reader / consultant.