Sophia Turkiewicz is an
Australian film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
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
''Time's Raging'' is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Sophia Turkiewicz and starring Judy Morris and Penne Hackforth-Jones. The screenplay concerns a 38-year-old woman who wants a baby.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Scr ...
'' (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
''A Country Practice'' is an Australian television soap opera which broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 5 November 1993, airing at 7:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,058 episodes were p ...
'' (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
External links
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Living people
Australian film directors
Australian women film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
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