An immigrant to the Bay Area from Argentina 30 years ago, Sylvia distinguished herself as a visionary woman from the very beginning. Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sylvia received a degree in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires where she went on to teach art and film history. In 1997, Sylvia founded the International Latino Film Festival – San Francisco Bay Area to give voice to Latino cultural expression through the powerful medium of film. The Festival has been a major event on the global film calendar. Her programming made possible for audiences from San Francisco, San Jose, to Berkeley, Redwood City, Sacramento and San Rafael and Larkspur in Marin County to be acquainted with fresh, meaningful, non-stereotypical view of the Latino experience, with focuses on Women in Film, the Immigrant Experience, the Jewish Experience in Latin America , Human Rights Series. CinePride a LGTB film program among others. She has created opportunities for the promotion and acknowledgement of Latino films and filmmakers and to generate career opportunities for Bay Area young people in the film and film festival industries.

She has been the Artistic Director for programming of the Int'l Latino Film Festival in Redwood City, California. She continued her work in Todos Santos, Baja California, Mexico where since 2004 the festival she founded has brought the best of Latin America films with focus on Mexican films artists and directors. The Festival has grown to become the largest event in Baja California Sur dedicated to the dissemination of high quality Latino films in Todos Santos and La Paz.

A former professor of Art History at the University of Buenos Aires, Sylvia remains committed to art, and education. With her firm belief in the inspirational power of film, Sylvia has created groundbreaking educational programs. She started in 1998 the award-winning "Youth in Video" program, where minority and at-risk youth learn the art of filmmaking, digital technology, and are encouraged to pursue higher education. Hundreds of disadvantaged Latino youth in the Bay Area, Mexico and Buenos Aires, have studied the art of filmmaking with distinguish Latino filmmakers. The result is over 50 films, many of them internationally awarded. This program is now in its 5th year in Todos Santos with a result of 6 documentaries produced by young local children and high school students.

She curates Latino programs for major international festivals including the Festival Latinoamericano di Trieste (Italy), and the Territorio Latinoamericano program for the prestigious Festival de Málaga (Spain). She also curates and lectures on Latino Film at a number of Universities and Colleagues (UC Berkeley, Dominican University, College of Marin, City College SF, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Mexico among others.)

Sylvia is regularly invited as a Juror for major international and local film festivals such as Frameline (San Francisco), DOCSDF (Mexico), Carmona Film Fest (Spain), and Malaga Film Festival (Spain), Monterrey International Film Festival, ( México), Expresión de Corto, Guanajuato- San Miguel de Allende, ( México), Mostra de Valencia, SEMINCI, Valladolid Film Festival. Spain. She has just returned from Kerala, India where she was invited as President of the Jury for the Indian "Opera Prima" section of this prestigious festival, the second in size in India. She will participate in 2012 as a juror at the Guadalajara Film Festival in Mexico and at the Moscow Film Festival in Russia.

She is a curator, lecturer and educator in Latino films and she has received numerous awards and official recognitions including Certificates of Recognition from the California State Assembly, the United States Congress, the Channel 7ABC Latino of the Year Award and the KQED- PBS Latino Hero Award among others.

Sylvia's passion and commitment has advance the presence of Latinos in the world of filmmaking, Sylvia has transformed the lives of many in the San Francisco Bay Area and Todos Santos, Mexico and beyond with her tireless work and creative vision.