Sylvia has produced acclaimed award-winning fiction and documentary for international theatrical and television release, funded by Screen Australia, Screen NSW, ABC TV, SBS TV and private investment. Her films have screened at over 45 international film festivals and been sold to television in most territories.
She has made four films with writer/ director Kim Mordaunt:
• The Rocket (feature drama, 96 min, official selection Berlin International Film Festival 2013);
• Bomb Harvest (feature documentary, 88 min, winner Best Feature, Children’s Rights, Artivist International Film Festival, LA and sold to TV in over 25 territories);
• Mongrel’s Ghost (drama short, 15 min, selected for Sydney, LA, Bilbao and Sao Paulo Film Festivals);
• Speed City (documentary, 26 min, Best Documentary Phoenix Film Festival).
In 2010 Sylvia was selected for the Rotterdam Producers’ Lab at Cinemart. She has worked extensively throughout Southeast Asia and as a script assessor for Australian film financing agencies. She is currently developing two features with Kim as writer/director: the drama/action/romance Pink Mist and the thriller Zig Zag.
Sylvia graduated in 1993 from the film production degree at UTS (Sydney) and received her early industry experience working on films for BBC and Channel 4 UK, and with some of Australia’s leading filmmakers including Rowan Woods (The Boys, Little Fish), Geoff Burton (The Sum of Us), Vincent Sheehan and Liz Watts (Little Fish, Animal Kingdom).