Sylvia Ray is an award-winning Chicana/Korean-American director based in Los Angeles and a 2025 Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow. In 2024, she was selected as a Latino Film Institute Inclusion Fellow, where she wrote and directed The Vote. Her feature script The Middle was a quarterfinalist at the HollyShorts Film Festival and selected for the FICMonterrey Pro-Meetings Program. The Middle proof of concept was nominated for Best LatinX Film at the 2024 HollyShorts Film Festival. Ray’s work explores themes of empowerment, morality and grief, with a focus on women and BIPOC representation in film.