Sonja Bertucci is a Richmond-based filmmaker and Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the University of Richmond. After completing her MFA at CalArts, she taught film and filmmaking at multiple universities. Her films often thematize grief and loss, ephemerality, the struggle for personal and communal survival, and marginalized subjects of cultural life. Her first feature-length documentary, entitled Stranger from Within, is a personal and political film about Serbian communities in Kosovo. The film won the Special Jury Award at the BelDocs International Documentary Film Festival in May 2015 and has since then been shown on national television in Serbia (RTS). In 2017, she made an experimental short film as a tribute to The Night of the Hunter entitled A Hard World For Little Things that screened at several international festivals. In 2018, a documentary entitled Fixing the Earth (2018) made in collaboration with writer-filmmaker Laureline Amanieux has also been shown on television in France (November 2018) as well as on Arte streaming platform. Her latest documentary film is about a centenarian couple entitled The Diamond Couple (2024).