Dr. Sonja Bozic is a professor, filmmaker, and transmedia/XR creator/producer based in NYC and working everywhere.
Sonja Bozic is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and professor. A Serbian native based in NYC, she has edited, directed, and produced a wide range of video forms that have been screened at international festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival. She participated in the 2013 Tribeca Hackathon as part of the Frontline/ProPublica team. Sonja is an Assistant Professor of Communications at Adelphi University. She has also taught at Goucher College in Baltimore, The New School in New York City, and Montclair State University in New Jersey. Sonja earned her Ph.D. in Transmedia Storytelling from Ohio University, where her research was nominated for the Trisolini Fellowship Award. She attended the Producing Fundamentals Intensive at SPS NYU. Additionally, she has served as a mentor and speaker internationally, giving talks at conferences such as SIGGRAPH and VR/AR Global Summit. Sonja was the 2022/23 Saul Zaents Innovation Fund - Johns Hopkins fellow, working on her VR project, "Chocolate Milk," an immersive exploration of the mind of a person with autism.