Dr. Sandra Annett, Priscilla Galvez, and Dr. Katherine Spring at the Alumni Awards of Excellence ceremony, Sept. 20, 2023.
Film Studies alum Priscilla Galvez (’13) was the celebrated recipient of the prestigious Alumna of the Year Award at Laurier’s 2023 Alumni Awards of Excellence. The award recognizes outstanding achievement by a Laurier graduate and was granted to Priscilla at a ceremony that took place on September 20 in the Senate & Board Chambers.
Since graduating from Laurier with an exceptionally high GPA in her combined-honours degree of Film Studies and Communication Studies, Priscilla has ascended through the ranks of the Canadian film industry, having produced and/or directed films that have appeared on Netflix, Hulu, Crave, PBS, the CBC, the National Film Board of Canada, the Syfy Channel.
In 2021, she released the feature-length film Islands to critical acclaim. A coming-of-middle-age story about a Filipino-Canadian man, Islands was lauded by Variety magazine as “a lonely-heart drama as honest as it is touching” and earned multiple accolades, including the coveted Audience Choice Award at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and a Special Jury prize at SXSW.
A co-founder (with Jeff Pavlopolous) of Silent Tower Media, Priscilla has produced films that have played at TIFF, Slamdance, and SXSW, among other notable festivals. On September 18, 2023, Silent Tower’s film Motherland (dir. Jasmin Mozaffari) won the Best Canadian Film Award at TIFF’s Short Cuts Program.
Click here to read a feature interview with Priscilla and to learn more about her path from Laurier student to Canadian film producer.
We are extraordinarily proud of Priscilla’s many accomplishments, and we wish her all the best in her future endeavours!
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