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Silva Basmajian has worked as a producer, writer and researcher on more than 50 productions and has won more than 38 awards for her films î including a Peabody Award in 2001 for My Father's Camera and the 2001 WIFT Outstanding Achievement Award for personal achievement. She garnered a 2004 Genie nomination for the feature documentary The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali, which also won the Special Jury Award at Hot Docs in 2003.

Silva has also been awarded the prestigious Donald Brittain award for Best Social/Political Documentary for Deep Inside Clint Star at the 2000 Gemini Awards, and has received the Special Jury Prize at Banff Television Festival for Rape: A Crime of War. Her films have broadcast in every major country, and premiered at 183 international film festivals around the world.

Silva's recent projects include Insomnia, directed by Annette Mangaard; Pegi Nicol Mcleod, directed by Michael Osteroff; The Take (a co-production with Klein Lewis Productions and Barna Alper) and The Call, about the exploitation of young Black women in music videos, by first-time director (and 2003 NFB Reel Diversity Competition winner) Elizabeth St-Phillip.