Sylvie is a director of German-Dominican descent whose films explore questions of belonging. Exploring characters at challenging intersections of the human experience, her films probe the vast, mystical range of emotions that characters feel. Often anchored in historical events, Sylvie's films employ surrealism as a means to find meaning. These genre-bending stories reimagine freedom, resilience, and urgent contemporary moral issues.
Sylvie holds a Philosophy Master’s degree from the University of Vienna and studied Audio-Visual Production at SIMC in Pune, India.
Her films have screened at festivals and institutions worldwide, including Tribeca, Black Star Film Festival, BAM, LA Film Forum, Stanford University,
HollyShorts, the New York Latino Film Festival, and on Hulu.
As a commercial director with over a decade of experience, Sylvie has worked with some of the world’s leading brands like Nike, Lufthansa, DAZN, OnePlus, Bose, My/Mochi, Ayede.
She was a 2023 Playlab Creator’s Lab alum with Creator's Lab with Apichatpong Weerasethakul and a 2025 Indeed/Hillman Grad Rising Voices Filmmaker.
Her debut feature Río Masacre was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive and funded by the Austrian Film Institute’s Talent Lab.
