Cybill Lui Eppich

Cybill most recently produced The Silencing, a thriller starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones), Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After) directed by Robin Pront (The Ardennes). The film is a bonafide smash hit. Released across all platforms in summer 2020, Indiewire called it a "breakout success" and Variety reported the "hit" as the top grossing new film release with the highest per-screen average playing in 79 theaters in the U.S. It was the #1 rental for weeks and continued topping the charts two months into its domestic release. The Silencing is continuing its run worldwide as Universal Pictures' top PVOD international title. Slated for a World Premiere at SXSW2020 in the Midnighters program but cancelled due to COVID-19, the film was nominated for Best Picture in the Official Fantàstic Competition at Sitges 2020. Cybill produced two films supporting first-time female directors, including upcoming sci-fi thriller Warning, starring an ensemble cast including Alex Pettyfer, Alice Eve, Annabelle Wallis, Kylie Bunbury, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rupert Everett, Thomas Jane and Tomasz Kot. The other, Akoni, about a Nigerian refugee escaping the clutches of Boko Haram only to find himself struggling to integrate into Australian society. Upcoming announced projects for Cybill include The Mirage Man with Oscar-winner Steven Zaillian producing set up at 20th Century/Disney. Cybill's produced Pay The Ghost starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Wayne Callies by Academy Award-nominee Uli Edel (The Baader Meinhof Complex), After the Dark starring James D'Arcy and an ensemble young cast receiving a Best Picture nomination at the Sitges Film Festival, and Old 37 starring horror vets Bill Mosely and Kane Hodder. As the partner of her former production company An Olive Branch Productions, she produced The Philosophers, Casino Jack and The Girl Who Invented Kissing. For years, Cybill worked with leading 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 Chair of Girls Quest Young Professionals Committee, Cybill raised funds, awareness, and provided mentorship, nurturing girls from low-income families in the New York City area, a non-profit focused on building teenage girls' social competence and confidence. Cybill graduated with High Distinction (Suma Cum Laude) in 2003 from the University of Toronto earning a BBA degree. She danced ballet for 15 years, learned classical Chinese dance, played the piano, the flute, the piccolo, competed in cheerleading, speech arts, and starred in a dozen television commercials. She grew up in her parents' music shop and spent her formative years performing on stage. Her mother is a Cantonese opera singer who founded Starlight Cantonese Opera.