Not long after starting her professional journey as an accessible travel blogger, Sylvia realized that video is king in the world of content creation. Her foray into videography began with travel content, first on her phone for YouTube videos highlighting her travel destinations, then into professional drone footage making her content even more dramatic and impactful. In 2021, she realized that she wasn’t alone in having dreams that she can walk despite being a full-time wheelchair user, and decided that this was a message worth documenting and spreading. This is how Walking Dreams, her first feature length documentary project, was born. After a long pause in development and production, she’s thrilled to be bringing Walking Dreams back to life with an expanded production team and budget.
WALKING DREAMS Official Trailer
Sylvia was hoping to produce another feature length documentary that would follow her on an expedition cruise in Antarctica and flying across the Drake Passage. Although that didn’t work out as planned, in the meantime she discovered her new passion – the documentary short film. Ever since becoming a full-time wheelchair user 12 years ago, she knew she viewed the world differently, for better or for worse, from a seated position. This is how The View From Down Here came about, a six minute short film that provides a first person point of view from wheelchair life lower down. It explores many of the visual obstacles presented from a wheelchair user’s experience, but also highlights the beauty and small joys that other people rarely notice. Sylvia filmed the entire documentary by herself on an iPhone. She also produced and edited the short film on her own, and recorded the voice narration in her home studio.Sylvia is currently submitting The View to film festivals across the globe, and is hoping to begin a solid festival run in late 2026.