Today we’d like to introduce you to Sylvia Kurth.
Sylvia, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
I come from a second generation of Artists, since my Dad, Werner Kurth was an Opera Singer and my Mom, Klarissa – Heimann – Kurth was a Ballet Dancer and Choreographer and we raised the third generation of another great Artist, Yasmin von Banke – Singer – Song and Soundtrack writer, with my partner Markus Kmitta, Composer and Film Producer.
I have a BA in the Fine Arts and worked as a Choreographer – Director – Producer and Writer for the THEATER – DANCE – COMPANY – Sylvia Kurth in Europe for 25 years. We came to America 1999, where I worked as Choreographer first, but then I have met the Film Director Brad Silberling, he saw my work and scripts and told me, I’m a director, I see your great Vision, I understand where you coming from, but you have to learn to get the right tools so everyone can see what you see.
He gave me the advice to go back to college to take writing classes for the film. So I did, I went to Los Angeles City College with the great Film Department: Professor Joni Varner – Associate Professor Michele Gendelman and Cinema Instructor Jim Desmarais helped me to get the right tools.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It is a journey to gather your tools to break into this industry. Mostly you get to hear “I help you to achieve your dreams but first give me $5k upfront”. We artists are not only dreamers, we fight every day to get closer to our goals.
MASKS DON’T LIE – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
We, the company MASKS DON’T LIE LLC work right now on two movies:
MASKS DON’T LIE is also the title of the movie that we plan to film in Venice, Italy. To show an unbelievable beauty of a City with its mystery and secrets. We already have some great Cast: Anna Hutchison ( “The Cabin in the Woods”) – Jayne Wisener ( Tim Burton’s Film “Sweeney Todd” ) Emmanuelle Vaugier (“Secondhand Lions”).
Wish List Actors for the great main character parts are:
Caleb Landry Jones, Kit Harington and Natalie Dormer.
We are also proud of our fantastic Crew: Like Nigel Galt, Picture Editor of Stanley Kubrick’s Film: “Eyes Wide Shut” Wedigo von Schultzendorff, Director of Photography, Woody Allen’s “Hollywood Ending” Luca Tranchino, Production Designer, who had the honor to work on several movies with director Martin Scorsese. And much more Actors and Crew from the USA and Europe.
We would love to collaborate for MASKS DON’T LIE with AMBI PICTURES because Lady Monika Bacardi is a great sponsor of Venice. Since we don’t go after the touristy Venice and show the City’s cultural side. Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino, both very familiar with Venice, would be a great match for MASKS DON’T LIE, they know Italy so well.
MASKS DON’T LIE is a movie about a Woman (NORA) that went to Venice to celebrate Carnival. People in Costumes animate the whole city and bring the glamour of old times back to life and the audience to a Venice from the 1700´s, with all the great Masks, but nobody knows who is hiding behind these spectacular masks. Nora will find out that she has been in Venice before in another lifetime and left a deadly family secret behind.
The second Movie is called DEADLY SPLIT: THE TWIN MOVIE. Experiment goes wrong, Artificial Twins appear and the line between life and death will be crossed. We will shortly cast TWINS in USA – England – Germany for this high stylish movie.
One of my favorite scene in DEADLY SPLIT: THE TWIN MOVIE you can call it a B story, plays at a Cemetery, where one of the Twins grave is, where a mother stands at the grave with a blue balloon and the daughter walks right behind her, unseen from her Mom and puts the hand on her crying mother’s shoulder and after a short moment the mom breathes very deep for the first time since she lost her beloved daughter and is finally able to let the balloon and her daughter go.
My movies are about life after life and love as the strongest power. Dead people are not Monsters or Zombies, it’ s more than we are able to connect with a kind of between world. Sometimes to get help or they need our help. I like to bring hope, make people more aware of the life after life.
What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
Back in Germany, it was DEJA VU, a big Multi-Media Show featuring actors, dancers and a classical choir and ethnic singers from Bulgaria and Spain at the incredible scenery of the Bundes-Kunsthalle, Bonn Art-Museum and the International Dane Fair in Essen that I have directed, choreographed and produced.
My partner Markus Kmitta composed incredible music for the show. At the International Dance Fair and the UCLA I showed also a 2D – 3 D free floating in mid-air choreography called “THE POINT” using a 3D Projector.
Contact Info:
- Address: 3183 Wilshire Blvd #196 Los Angeles, CA 90010, USA
- Website: www.masksdontlie.com – http://deadlysplit.com/
- Phone: 8182616741
- Email: laskartcom@hotmail.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Masks-Dont-Lie-179095795469245/ – https://www.facebook.com/DeadlySplit/
- Other: https://pro-labs.imdb.com/title/tt5510782/?ref_=sch_int – https://pro-labs.imdb.com/title/tt6397124/?ref_=sch_int
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