Ines Hofmann Kanna

Producer

Ines Hofmann Kanna is an independent producer with more than twenty years of experience. She produced Sonia Kennebeck’s Emmy-nominated National Bird (Berlin 2016) as well as Kennebeck’s Enemies of the State (TIFF 2020) and Cecilia Aldarondo’s most recent film Landfall (Tribeca 2020). She began her career at Boston’s PBS station, WGBH, and has filmed in places as close as Iowa and as far as Yemen and Saudi Arabia. She also worked as Supervising Producer for ITVS, where she guided more than thirty filmmakers from production to broadcast. Ines was born in East Germany and lives in Oakland, California.

Participating Sessions

OPENING NIGHT: United States vs. Reality Winner

THE SURVEILLANCE TRILOGY

Over the course of their three most recent films, United States vs. Reality Winner (2021), Enemies of the State (2020) and National Bird (2016), director Sonia Kennebeck and producer Ines Hofmann Kanna have focused on telling the stories of whistleblowers, especially those with ties–real or claimed–to surveillance and national security. Their latest film tracks the prosecution of Reality Winner, a young government contractor who leaked a National Security Agency document...