Regina Sobel

Senior Producer

Regina Sobel is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. As editor and co-writer of the feature documentary Human Nature, she received both IDA and Emmy Award nominations for Best Editing. She served as Supervising Editor of Op-Docs, the New York Times’ short documentary series, including for the Oscar-winning film The Queen of Basketball. Her other credits include Fail State, a feature documentary about inequality in higher education; Old Dog, a verite documentary about sheep dog training in New Zealand; and Queen of Earth, a narrative feature starring Elisabeth Moss. Before working as an editor, she produced and directed motion graphics on projects including PBS’s Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream, Showtime’s “Years of Living Dangerously,” and HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” She is currently directing a film about the relationship between people and trees.

Publications

Did Plants Domesticate Humans? Watch The First Entanglement

Sobel, R. (2023, January 26). Did plants domesticate humans? Watch “The First Entanglement.” Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/did-plants-domesticate-humans-watch-the-first-entanglement/