Josephina Wesselly-Sykes

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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