He is an ambassador for the UK copyright awareness organisation The Industry Trust.
Had his own video label as 'Jonathan Sothcott Presents' via 4Digital Media with titles released under the banner including Elvira's Haunted Hills and Two Headed Shark Attack.
The late British producer Euan Lloyd was a mentor to Sothcott in his youth, and Sothcott gave the eulogy at his memorial service, entitled The Last of the Gentleman Producers after the documentary he produced about Lloyd's career.
Away from films is an occasional author with published books including The Cult Films of Christopher Lee, Ten Years of Terror, The Films of Danny Dyer (co-written with James Mullinger) and the forthcoming The Jermyn Street Shirt.