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Josephina Wesselly-Sykes


  • Writer, Producer, Director
  • Born: in Bucureşti
Born in Bucharest, Romania, Josephina fell in love with film from a young age, spending her childhood on soundstages and screening rooms created a passion for storytelling that led her to attend the National Film School in 1995. While there, she organized international film festivals, worked as a copywriter, and wrote several 35mm shorts. She also spent a semester at La FEMIS film school in Paris, France in 1998 after being awarded a scholarship by the French Foreign Ministry. After graduating with a major in screenwriting, she worked for Romania's two largest film studios, Castel Film and Media Pro Pictures. Since relocating to Los Angeles in 2001, Josephina continued to work in film, both as a screenwriter and in production on various indie features. In 2004, she founded Nightfall Pictures, a full-service development and production company, with her husband, writer/director Brad Sykes. She decided to take a chance and use her hands-on set experience to dive into full time producing. Since then, Josephina has produced several feature films, including thriller Within the Woods, drama Dead Letters (starring C. Thomas Howell), actioner Mutation (debut of Katie Featherston) and the award-winning sci-fi/horror film Plaguers (starring Steve Railsback). Her work has been profiled in many publications including The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, Backstage West, Fangoria, Indie Slate, HorrorHound and Gorezone. Josephina is one of the co-creators and executive producers of the award-winning horror anthology "Hi-8: Horror Independent Eight" that was selected in the official competition of over twenty film festivals around the world. Hi-8 received the Contribution to Horror Genre Filmmaker Award at Horror Hour Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA and was well reviewed in genre publications before being released worldwide by Wild Eye Releasing. Recently, alongside her partner Brad Sykes, Josephina created "Hi-Death", the sequel to "Hi-8". Besides executive producing the movie, Josephina also co-wrote "Cold Read", the L.A.-based segment directed by Brad. "Hi-Death" made its festival debut this March at New Jersey Con Film Festival and had the European premiere at Paracinema Film Festival in UK. (Nightfall Pictures)
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2022

2019

2008

Festivals / Awards

  • 2008
 Estepona, Spania Plaguers Silver Unicorn for Best Screenplay
  • 2008
 Independent Film Festival MID - Ohio Plaguers Best SF

Filmography

Producer

They Came from LA

2023

Hi Fear

2022

Anatomy of a Screem (documentary short)

2019

Hi-Death

producer / executive producer

2018

The 8 Simple Rules of Hi-8 (documentary short)

2014

HI-8

producer / executive producer

2013

Scares in Space (documentary short)

2009

Plaguers

2008

Dead Letters

2007

Mutation

2006

Blood Sweat and Fear (documentary short)

2006

Within the Woods

2005

Lord of Vampires

associate producer

2002

Writer

Hi Fear

co-writer

2022

Anatomy of a Screem (scurtmetraj documentar)

2019

Liars 2

2002

Liars

2001

Fine del primo tempo (mediumetraj)

1999

Tout est bien qui finit.. (documentar)

1998

Rendez-Vous Cafe

co-writer

1998

Poveste de iarna (scurtmetraj)

1998

Director

They Came from LA

2023

Burying the Ex (scurtmetraj)

first AD

2008

Mutation

director team 2

2006

Dirty Habit

first AD

2006

Within the Woods

director team 2

2005

Screech of The Decapitated

director team 2

2005

Lord of Vampires

first AD

2002

Istoria comunismului (serial tv - 12 ep.)

assistant

2000/2001

Tout est bien qui finit.. (documentar)

1998

Poveste de iarna (scurtmetraj)

1998

Phantom Town

assistant

1997