SONETTA DUNCAN

Sonetta Duncan is a Scottish-Canadian filmmaker, actress, and author based out of Toronto, Ontario. She was raised in Aurora, Ontario, a historic district older than Canada itself.

A lover of tradition, philosophy, and art, Sonetta has always claimed to be a seeker of truth. Her first true loves were theatre and literature; performing since the age of six, and a self-taught author of poetry and prose shortly thereafter. With a keen motivation to make a difference in the world, cinema was an obvious choice for her to realize her destiny.

Believing deeply in art's power to change the world, she pursued her passion for cinema in post-secondary, graduating from York University's BFA of Film Production in 2016.

Her work is highly experimental and philosophical (borderline art house), influenced significantly by foreign cinema. She often combines mixed-media to properly convey her themes and messages in unique and abstract ways. She is an old-school cinema buff and often shoots on film, personally hand-processing and digitizing the footage to deepen her connection with the work. She believes that artists are vessels and that the art created should be offered space to breathe and become that which it is meant to.