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.
Sophia Turkiewicz
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- Sophia Turkiewicz
- Occupation
- Director
- Born
- 1946 · Rhodesia.
- Nationality
- Australia
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• Name — Sophia Turkiewicz • Occupation — Director
Television
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• 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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• 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.
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