No matter how simple the question, there's never a short answer. Either she likes to tell stories or she just likes to listen to herself speak.

Being that she was not meant to be the professional type - the type that wears blood circulation restricting panty hose, Sylvia quickly felt comfortable among the peoples of film production. Her first encounter with film production was as an intern at Norton Pictures, a commercial film production house in Houston, TX. Soon thereafter she started freelancing as a Production Asst. Once she received her Communications degree from the University of Houston in 1997 she got a full-time job at Rio Bravo Pictures. Some of the many hats she wore were: talent coordinator, script supervisor, script translator, wardrobe asst., props asst., and AD.

Yet Houston was not big enough for Sylvia. So, she packed her belongings and headed west with only her 4 years of experience and a new credit card for back- up. In Los Angeles, she continued working on commercials and the occasional TV promo, which lead her to meet Rachel Tejada at Autonomy who then invited her to the first Group101 screening.

Without thinking she signed right up and found herself faced with yet another challenge. The challenge of becoming a filmmaker. So here she is looking forward to wherever this path directs her. As a member of Group 102 She has taken a whack out at writing only to discover that miraculously she stops at 30 seconds! Indeed, she has been scarred by 5 years of commercial film production. But wait till you see her camera handicap! That's a whole other story...Paynie knows.