Gail Sonnenfeld

Gail Sonnenfeld has worked in the LA film industry before returning to her native Chicago to produce and teach at Columbia College. In LA and New York she worked for Academy Award-winning production designers Eugenio Zannetti, Dick Sylbert, and Tony Walton. Companies she has worked for include Sony, HBO, PBS, MTV, and VH-1. Currently Gail produces independent features and documentaries. Gail produced the 2001 documentary, The Optimist, which won the Peace Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. She received an MFA from the AFI and MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, New York.