Sylvia Stevens

Biography

Sylvia Stevens is a co-founder of Faction Films, with over thirty years of experience as a producer and director. She has made programmes for UK broadcasters – BBC, Channel 4, ITV – and internationally – NETFLIX, RTE, PBS, NHK, ARTE, SBS, AVRO, STV, AJ and YLE amongst others. She has done coproductions in Latin America – Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil – and in India, South Africa, Australia and Japan. Her documentary films range from the social and political to the arts, and include Picturing Derry (Northern Ireland), War Takes (war in Colombia), Tales Beyond Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez on writing for cinema), Love Honour and Disobey (domestic violence), Chevolution feature documentary/Netflix, Educating Igor (Roma in Slovakia), Android in La Land -Gary Numan feature documentary,The Plan nominated for Grieson Award LFF, Off the Rails in competition at Thessaloniki 2022. She has made one VR film. Her films have won prizes in New York, Havana and Ireland among others. Sylvia has been the EAVE Documentary Expert since 2005 and has run workshops in Colombia, South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey and Cuba. Recently she consults also at CHANGE Co-production training course as a documentary expert.