Sophia Turkiewicz is a freelance drama/documentary director and screenwriter. Her directing and writing credits include the feature film Silver City, which was released internationally, won three 1984 AFI awards, and the Sydney Film Critics Award for Best Feature. Her television work includes adult and children’s drama (Something in the Air, Escape of the Artful Dodger and telemovies Time’s Raging, I’ve Come About the Suicide.) She spent six years as a lecturer in the Directing Dept at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (2002- 2008). Her 2014 feature documentary Once My Mother had a national cinema release, won the Australian Directors Guild Award for Best Feature Documentary, Audience Awards at a number of international film festivals, the UN Media Peace Award for Best Television Documentary, and was nominated for a Walkley Award.