And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed; perhaps also protesting. But don’t give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers—perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Sophie Hyde is one of the founders and co-directors of Closer Productions. She makes drama and documentary films. Sophie produced Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, which premiered at Sundance 2011 and released in 30 states across the USA. She also produced and co-directed the feature documentary Life in Movement about choreographer Tanja Liedtke which won the Foxtel Australian Documentary Prize at Sydney Film Festival, the Cinedans Grand Jury Prize and Audience Awards and the Australian Dance Award for Best Dance for film. Life in Movement was released in Australian cinemas in April 2012 and in Germany in 2013. Sophie's first feature drama 52 Tuesdays (co-writer, director and producer) began shooting in August 2011 and continued every Tuesday for 52 weeks. It won the Directing Award in the Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema competition and the Crystal Bear at Berlin Film Festival. It released in Australia in 2014 and will release internationally early in 2015.
Sophie is also the current recipient of the Myer Foundation Fellowship and the Screen Australia Feature Enterprise program.
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