Silvia Turchin

Silvia Turchin is a Bay Area-based filmmaker. Her work explores memory and nostalgia, often amidst urban landscapes, and seeks to gain intimacy with the past through keen visual and aural observation of the traces it has left in our current day-to-day surroundings. She is also interested in using film to give voice to issues of animal welfare.

Silvia is Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts at Cal State Monterey Bay. She has also taught as adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Art Institute.

In 2016, Silvia completed a short visual poem, Circles: A Poem in Three Parts, which has been a part of the official selection at the London Experimental Film Fest, the Big Muddy Film Festival, Experimental Edge Film & Art Festival, and the San Francisco Roxie Mixtape Series. In 2015, she completed the half-hour documentary, Dogs of the 9th Ward, which won Best Short Documentary at the 2016 Williamsburg Independent Film Festival and is currently touring community screenings and festivals. Her 2013 experimental documentary, F-Line won Best Experimental Film at the Fargo Film Festival. Her films have screened at festivals and venues such as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Dresden Filmfest , Mill Valley Film Festival, Frameline, Haverhill Experimental Festival.

Silvia received her B.A. in Creative Writing from USC, did post-graduate work in film editing in Barcelona, and holds her MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University.