Sylvia Ray is an award-winning Chicana/Korean-American director who focuses on telling stories about characters who overcome feelings of unworthiness. She was born and raised in Barstow, CA, and found her love for storytelling through her parents who watched bootleg Korean dramas and Star Trek while in separate rooms. Her work pops with a fun and feminine energy with underlying themes of empowerment, morality, and processing grief.
Her film “PREGGERS” won Best Comedy Short at the Arizona International Film Festival and screened at The Academy through the LatinX InFocus program at New Filmmakers LA, among other festivals throughout the US. She was selected for HBO's Tomorrow's Filmmaker's Today program and, as a result, her film “LEN(N)Y” was streamed to audiences on Pantaya and DISH! Latino worldwide. She’s worked with critically acclaimed actors like Julio Macias from Netflix’s On My Block and Victoria Moroles from Hulu’s Plan B on her latest film “THE MIDDLE”.
A Satellite Collective Fellow, Sylvia is based in Los Angeles and pulls inspiration from her desert-town upbringing, travels abroad, and motherhood. As someone who has found comfort and pride in her mixed roots, she is motivated to forge a path that her ancestors only dreamed of while making a positive impact in representation in front of and behind the camera.