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Sonya Di Rienzo is a Canadian film producer. She is most noted as a producer of the films My Tree , which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, [1] and Brother , which won the CSA for Best Motion Picture at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. [2]

She is a partner with Aeschylus Poulos in Hawkeye Pictures.

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