Sophia Turkiewicz

Sophia Turkiewicz is an Australian film and television director known for her film Silver City. Silver City, which Turkiewicz began during a six-month stay in Poland, was released internationally and won 3 AFI awards. 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)
• Silver City (1984)
• 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.

Television

• Time's Raging (1985)
• 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)

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