Born in Naples, she is an award-winning cinematographer/director/producer. After more than a decade of experience in New York, she relocates to Los Angeles. Selected by the ASC Vision Committee for the prestigious ASC Vision Mentorship Award program.
She has worked across feature films, TV series, commercials, and music videos, including the television series The Captain, directed by Randy Wilkins and executive produced by Spike Lee, and the feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh, winner of the Golden Dagger at the Muscat Film Festival for Best Cinematography. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received the Best Film award at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival.
Her black-and-white work on Adieu Lacan, featuring David Patrick Kelly, won two awards for Best Cinematography, at the Cult Critic Movie Awards (CCMA) and the Global Film Festival Awards. Soyka won the award for Best Cinematography at the New York Cinematography Awards and the Canadian Cinematography Awards; Fire in Water won the Best Cinematography award at the Los Angeles festival.
She is also known for Without Grace, featuring Ann Dowd, for 3 Days Rising, with Mickey Rourke, Ice-T, and Peter Greene, for Tape, directed by Deborah Kampmeier (Star Trek: Picard, Clarice, Queen Sugar, Virgin, Hounddog) and starring Isabelle Fuhrman, and for the music video Stand for a Change featuring Vanessa Williams and Billy Porter.
She works on the Apple TV series Dear X S2 with Viola Davis, Ava DuVernay, Jane Fonda, Sandra Oh, and Selena Gomez, on the Netflix original series Gypsy with Naomi Watts, and on The Stand. She won the Best Cinematography award at the Louisiana International Film Festival for her work on the period film Madeline’s Oil.
She subsequently works on Isola, an English-language drama/thriller featuring Fanny Ardant and Joanna Kulig, filmed on the Island of Elba, Italy, which in 2026 wins the Best Film award at the ECU – European Independent Film Festival, an event held in Paris that each year offers an overview of European independent cinema. Also released in 2024 are the paranormal thriller Quail Hollow, with Peyton Wich and Thomas Francis Murphy, and the drama Resentment, with Jon Ponton and Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
As a director, she helms The Amytal Therapy, earning multiple nominations at international festivals.
She has worked as a cinematographer for HBO, Netflix, Voyage TV, and Showtime. She has shot numerous nationally broadcast commercials for British Airways, Dungeons and Dragons, Ford, Nike, GBX Shoes, Planned Parenthood, Vivitar, Novomatic Marilyn Monroe, Pukka, and Altec, which have received Telly Awards. She has worked on music videos for Aesop Rock, number one on the MTV top ten; The Roots, Miss Peppermint, The Stein, and Jesse Lynn Madera.
She is currently shooting the TV series Morning, Paris!, with Margins Films, and Our Thoughts with Cuyo Productions. She is featured in Teen Vogue in the article “Meet the Cinematographers Behind Some of the Biggest Movies.”
