Sonia Godding Togobo has worked in broadcast television for the last decade. With broadcast credits in Canada and England and having shot films in both Haiti and Ghana, Sonia has worked on a wide range of programs.In 2001, after graduating from Humber’s Film and Television program, Sonia went on to work in numerous post productioncompanies before settling at Nelvana - North America's largest animation distributor. While at Nelvana, she independently worked on short films, music videos and documentaries.
Favouring the latter she worked her way up to associate editor on CBC's A Deathly Silence and WTSN Profile series before moving on to Canada's pioneering music channel - MuchMusic in 2003.
There, she edited a variety of the channel’s programs including two one hour specials on the crisis in Darfur and the tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
In 2005, Sonia worked on SunTV's Echo, the channel’s premiere multi-ethnic biography series that highlighted diverse trailblazing Torontionians. In 2006, she crossed the big pond and moved to London where she worked in entertainment and factual programming for a variety of production companies and networks including Endemol and Cineflix.
In 2007, she shot and edited her first documentary We Had a Dream, in Accra, Ghana. Later that year, she also shot her second film, Adopted ID about a transracially adopted Canadian who returns to Haiti in search of her biological family. This is Sonia’s first feature length documentary which will be released in 2011.
She is the co-founder of SunStar Worldwide - a media and personal development company.
