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=SOFIA SONDERVAN= Sofia Sondervan is a film producer and until recently headed up Sony Music Film, a division of Sony Music which she founded in 2005. While at Sony Music, she produced Cadillac Records, released by Sony Pictures and starring Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright and Beyonce Knowles. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe, as well as eight NAACP Image Awards, and won NAACP’s accolade for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Sofia also produced TriStar’s 2007 release Feel The Noise with Jennifer Lopez and the award-winning Ghosts of Cite Soleil in 2006, executive produced by Wyclef Jean and winner of the DGA Award for Best Director. She acquired the critically acclaimed “The Future is Unwritten” about Joe Strummer and The Clash and “East of Havana” produced by Charlize Theron. She is currently in preproduction on the Clash film London Calling directed by Derrick Borte (The Joneses) and the Spy Project with Will Wright (creator of The Sims, Sim City and Spore) both of which have a first look with Sony Pictures and just completed Bringing Up Bobby directed by Famke Janssen en starring Milla Jovovich, Bill Pullman and Marcia Cross which will premiered at the Cannes Film market in 2011. She also worked on The Men Who Built America mini series for the History Channel in October.=Prior to this post Sofia was Head of East Coast Production for ContentFilm where she produced The King, which starred Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt and premiered in the official selection (Un Certain Regard) of the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. She also produced Party Monster starring Macaulay Culkin, Rick starring Bill Pullman and Hebrew Hammer starring Adam Goldberg, and worked on such films as The Cooler and Thank You for Smoking.= Earlier in her career, Sofia served as Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Productions for POP.com, a joint venture between Dreamworks SKG and Imagine Entertainment, and Head of Acquisitions for Cary Woods’ Independent Pictures, a subsidiary of New Line, as well as Director of Business Affairs for Miramax Films. A native of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sofia graduated summa cum laude from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Television. She is a member of the Producers Guild as well as New York Women in Film. She recently taught a graduate film directing and producing course at the school of Visual Arts. She lives in New York with her husband and her son.