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Cybill is a veteran indie producer with a track record of success in producing elevated genre films. Through her banner Anova Pictures, she produced global smash hit THE SILENCING, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis and Hero Fiennes Tiffin directed by Robin Pront, a Global Top Ten Netflix film, opening #2 in the US and landing in the Top Ten across 53 countries. Released in summer 2020, Indiewire called it the “breakout success” with Variety reporting the “hit” as the top grossing new film release with the highest per-screen average opening on 80 screens during COVID. The film debuted digitally as the #1 rental for weeks, topping the domestic charts for two months while performing as Universal Pictures’ top international VOD/digital title. Slated for a World Premiere at SXSW2020 Midnighters, the film was nominated for Best Picture in the Official Fantàstic Competition at Sitges 2020.

Anova produced three films with female directors: sci-fi thriller WARNING, starring Alex Pettyfer, Alice Eve, Annabelle Wallis, Garance Marillier, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rupert Everett, and Thomas Jane which premiered at Sitges 2021 in the Panorama Fantàstic section, won the Audience Award and Melies D’Argent Award at Trieste Sci-fi 2021, released by LionsGate in theaters and digital on October 2021; action/horror short KICKSTART MY HEART starring Emma Pasarow by Kelsey Bollig which won multiple Best Horror/Best Action awards during its lengthy Oscar-qualifying festival run; romantic drama AKONI, about a Nigerian refugee escaping the clutches of Boko Haram only to find himself struggling to integrate into Australian society, which premiered Opening Night CinefestOZ 2021 an Official Selection and released in Australian theaters.

Cybill executive produced PAY THE GHOST starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Wayne Callies by Academy Award-nominee Uli Edel with Voltage Pictures released by RLJ Entertainment, produced AFTER THE DARK starring James D’Arcy and an ensemble young cast nominated for Best Picture at Sitges 2013 released by Phase4 Films/E1 Studios, and executive produced OLD 37 starring horror vets Bill Mosely and Kane Hodder, premiered at HorrorHound 2015, both now streaming.

As partner of her former production company An Olive Branch Productions, she produced CASINO JACK, THE PHILOSOPHERS, AND THE GIRL WHO INVENTED KISSING. Cybill has always supported emerging female filmmakers by producing their award-winning shorts and features and showcasing their work at top film festivals. For years, Cybill worked with leading Canadian VFX company, Mr. X, on mid-budget studio genre projects.

In New York, she raised capital from European banks to build proton radiotherapy cancer treatment facilities in the U.S., funding the nation’s first two private practice proton centers treating thousands of patients a year. Cybill worked on Wall Street at investment bank CIBC World Markets’ technology, media and telecom group where she advised senior management on equity, debt, private placements and M&A deals totaling over $1 billion.

As the Chairperson of Girls Quest Young Professionals Committee, Cybill raised funds, awareness, and provided mentorship, nurturing girls from low-income families in New York City, a non-profit focused on building teenage girls’ social competence and confidence. At the young age of 28, she was invited to sit on the Board of Directors of Girls Quest.

Cybill graduated with High Distinction in 2003 from the University of Toronto earning a BBA degree. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Women In Leadership Program at the UC Santa Barbara PaCE program. She’s a member of the PGA (Producers Guild of America) and is frequently a guest speaker at industry events and film festivals.

Raised in Toronto and born in Hong Kong, Cybill danced ballet, Chinese dance, played the piano, the flute, competed in cheerleading, and starred in many local television commercials. Her parents owned a music company and her mother was a Cantonese opera singer, founding Starlight Cantonese Opera, a non-profit performing arts center in Toronto.