{{short description|Australian film and television director}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Sophia Turkiewicz | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Birth-date and age|Month DD, YYYY}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Director | known_for = }} '''Sophia Turkiewicz''' is an Australian film and television director known for her film ''Silver City''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Blonski|first=Annette|title=Don't Shoot Darling: Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia|year=1988|publisher=Australia in Print|isbn=0864360584|pages=234–236|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Obq66VX1LcC&q=%22Sophia+Turkiewicz%22&pg=PA235}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=A New Insight Into The Migrant Experience|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=enopAAAAIBAJ&pg=3910,5765070&dq=sophia-turkiewicz&hl=en|access-date=22 April 2013|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=Sep 27, 1984}}</ref> ''Silver City'', which Turkiewicz began during a six-month stay in Poland,<ref>{{cite book|last=Connell|first=John|title=Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0203426126|page=250|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6jY2MGoA_ccC&q=%22Sophia+Turkiewicz%22}}</ref> was released internationally and won 3 AFI awards.<ref>{{cite book|last=Simpson|first=Catherine|title=Diasporas of Australian cinema|year=2009|publisher=Intellect Ltd|isbn=978-1841501970|pages=137–146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmF8Id9vuhcC&q=Sophia+Turkiewicz&pg=PA139}}</ref> 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)<ref>{{cite news|title=Short Feature gets airing|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1fFUAAAAIBAJ&pg=3857,3647976&dq=sophia-turkiewicz&hl=en|access-date=22 April 2013|newspaper=The Age|date=Mar 24, 1981}}</ref> *''Silver City'' (1984)<ref>{{cite news|title='SILVER CITY': A BIT UNPOLISHED|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DN&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI{{!}}DN&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB298FD5AB64F9D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=22 April 2013|newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News|date=September 5, 1986}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Movie Review - Silver City|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C05E2DA123BF934A25756C0A963948260|access-date=22 April 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 17, 1985}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=McFarlane|first=Brian|title=Australian cinema|year=1988|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0231067283|pages=60, 61, 88, 108, 158, 180, 203|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qpUCVjhvrFgC&q=%22Sophia+Turkiewicz%22&pg=PA180}}</ref> *''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.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=Summer 2015|title=New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards|url=https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/sl_magazine_summer_201516_web.pdf|journal=SL Magazine|volume= 8| issue = 4|pages= 36}}</ref>
===Television=== *''Time's Raging'' (1985)<ref>{{cite news|title=All-star cast for new ABC telemovie on book by Moorhouse|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Hn1WAAAAIBAJ&pg=6238,1746500&dq=sophia-turkiewicz&hl=en|access-date=22 April 2013|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=Jun 3, 1984}}</ref> *''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== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name |0877197}}
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