Sonya Pemberton is one of Australia’s leading documentary filmmakers; an Emmy Award recipient and record-breaking five-time winner of the prestigious Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. Her passion is creating quality science documentaries for international audiences. Sonya has written, directed and produced over 70 hours of broadcast documentary, her films winning over 80 international awards. As a writer and director, her films include the critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning feature length specials ‘Cracking COVID’ (ABC), 'VITAMANIA' (SBS, ARTE, CuriosityStream) and 'Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines' (SBS, ARTE) and 'Vaccines-Calling the Shots' (PBS NOVA). Her multi award-winning film 'Catching Cancer' (SBS, Nat Geo) was an expose of viruses causing cancer and her film 'Immortal' (SBS, Smithsonian), featuring the work of Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, won the 2012 Emmy award for Outstanding Science. Sonya has also executive-produced many award-winning factual series and one-off programs, including ‘Carbon- the unauthorised biography’ (ABC, CBC, ARTE), 'Uranium: Twisting The Dragon’s Tail' (SBS, PBS and ZDF/ARTE), and 'CRUDE – the incredible journey of oil' with Dr Richard Smith.Previously Head of Specialist Factual at ABC Television, Sonya commissioned and managed over three hundred hours of factual television; her understanding of audiences’ desire for smart, accessible television saw ratings rise across the genres.Sonya has been honoured with Australian Health Journalist of the Year in 2011 and 2013, the 2014 Thornett Award for the Promotion of Reason, the Jill Robb Award in 2015, and in 2016 she received the Stanley Hawes Award for contribution to documentary.