Sonia Kennebeck is the director of a 2023 documentary called REALITY WINNER, about the whistleblower who released evidence of a Russian hacking attempt during the 2016 US presidential election. Reality was arrested by the FBI during Trump’s first term for leaking a classified document to The Intercept, a news site, and the Department of Justice came down on her using the Espionage Act. The case is interesting again because of a tendency to whitewash the interference story since Trump got re-elected.
Sonia is also the director of NATIONAL BIRD, a 2016 documentary about U.S. Air Force drones, as well as a short New York Times Op-Doc about my own case in Somalia.
Resources:
Reality Winner website
National Bird, Sonia’s film about the drone war
From Journalist to Hostage, Sonia’s short film about Mike
