SONYA SWINTON

Entertainment Marketing and Promotion Consultant

Sonya D. Swinton is a multi-talented marketing expert.  She specializes in entertainment marketing & promotions, and is an international consultant and motivational speaker for the phenomenal power of the Internet.  Swinton is the author of Star Power: Internet Celebrity:  Successful Advertising and Marketing on the Internet to the Entertainment Industry (2002) and the publisher of INTERNET CELEBRITY TV & Film Review Magazine©.

Sonya brings 12 years of experience in film promotion and marketing management to the Bare Bones International Film & Music Awards.  She has served on entertainment marketing campaigns for the Emmy, Grammy Awards and for national and international organizations such as the American Women in Radio & TV (AWRT) and the British Academy of Film, Television & Arts (BAFTA).

Swinton has even been called upon by top American film studios, such as Disney, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks and New Line Cinema just to name a few to promote their overseas film marketing for the BAFTA Awards.  She received the Kodak Student Worldwide Filmmakers award at the Society of Motion Pictures & Television Engineers Technical Conference in Los Angeles, California.

 She has an advanced Graduate Certificate from Howard University, Washington, DC a Masters Degree in Education from the Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arkansas.