Sophia Turkiewicz

Australian film and television director

Sophia Turkiewicz
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Director

Sophia Turkiewicz is an Australian film and television director known for her film Silver City.^[1]^[2] Silver City, which Turkiewicz began during a six-month stay in Poland,^[3] was released internationally and won 3 AFI awards.^[4] Turkiewicz has also spent six years as a lecturer in the directing department of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School before leaving to direct Once My Mother.

Filmography

Film

A Handful of Jelly Babies (1976)
Letters from Poland (1978)^[5]
Silver City (1984)^[6]^[7]^[8]
Flame (1995)
Pacific Drive (1996)
Once My Mother (2013). Short-listed for the 2015 Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.^[9]

Television

Time's Raging (1985)^[10]
I've Come About the Suicide (1987)
The New Adventures of Black Beauty (1992, episodes Sweet Reward and The Detectives)
Bananas in Pyjamas (1992, 37 episodes)
A Country Practice (1994, episodes Little Girl Lost and Family Business)
Mirror, Mirror (1995, season 1, episodes 6 - 10 and 16 - 20)
The Wayne Manifesto (1996, director of 4 episodes)
Driven Crazy (1998, episodes 1–4)
Something in the Air (2001, eight episodes)
Escape of the Artful Dodger (2002, six episodes)

References

^ Blonski, Annette (1988). Don't Shoot Darling: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia. Australia in Print. pp. 234–236. ISBN 0864360584.
^ "A New Insight Into The Migrant Experience". Sydney Morning Herald. 27 September 1984. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
^ Connell, John (2002). Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration. Routledge. p. 250. ISBN 0203426126.
^ Simpson, Catherine (2009). Diasporas of Australian cinema. Intellect Ltd. pp. 137–146. ISBN 978-1841501970.
^ "Short Feature gets airing". The Age. 24 March 1981. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
^ "'SILVER CITY': A BIT UNPOLISHED". Philadelphia Daily News. 5 September 1986. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
^ "Movie Review - Silver City". New York Times. 17 May 1985. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
^ McFarlane, Brian (1988). Australian cinema. Columbia University Press. pp. 60, 61, 88, 108, 158, 180, 203. ISBN 0231067283.
^ "New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards" (PDF). SL Magazine. 8 (4): 36. Summer 2015.
^ "All-star cast for new ABC telemovie on book by Moorhouse". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 June 1984. Retrieved 22 April 2013.