As president, Sibel Guvenc oversees the development and production of feature films, TV Series and Music Videos for Kybele Films. Turkish-born Canadian writer, director and producer Sibel Guvenc’s award winning short films screened at international
film festivals and markets all around the world. Sibel recently wrote, directed and produced SECRETS, a Bravo!FACT funded
music film for Maryem Tollar’s 2009 Juno Awards nominee Album “Cairo to Toronto”. Sibel also received a Bravo!FACT
award for THE ALMOND SORTERS, a short musical from Michael Occhipinti’s 2009 Juno Awards Nominee album “The Sicilian Jazz Project”. The Almond Sorters was broadcasted on Bravo!Canada and CBC in March 2009 and won a Platinum Award as Best Jazz Music Video at 42nd WorldFest Houston Int. Film Festival. HUNGARIAN SALAMI was nominated for Best Comedy at the 60th Annual Yorkton Golden Sheaf Awards (2007) and was considered for Canada’s Top Ten Shorts by Toronto International Film Festival Group. In 2006, Sibel received a Best Cinematography Award in New York and a Bronze Award in Houston for her internationally acclaimed film IN THE PENAL COLONY based on a Franz Kafka short story. She was also profiled by WHDH TV, affiliate of Deutches Welles in Florida, Omni-TV in Toronto and Hindustan Times in India. In 2005, she received Best Abstract Film Award in Toronto for her short film PALETTE. An honor graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design, Sibel twice received the William F. White Proficiency in Film Prize for her films STIGMA and ECCE HOMO. Sibel was selected to various prestigious programs in Canada including TIFF Talent Lab and Women in Director’s Chair Workshop. Sibel was mentored as a producer by Sandra Cunningham, working on the documentary 27, and three feature films in development including an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's THE EDIBLE WOMAN. Sibel was the field director and trainee producer on the CBC Television show TRIPLE SENSATION, executive produced by Garth Drabinsky and broadcast fall 2007. Born and raised in Turkey and having a background in visual arts and music, Sibel often infuses her stories with myth, ritual and imagination and offer the viewers a journey into the depths of the unknown and unexpected. Currently, Sibel is in development of her feature film EYES OF DREAMS, a psychological drama to shoot in Winter 2010 and CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, a TV Comedy series.