Salik Silverstein
Directing
Biography
Salik Silverstein is an Australian director, writer and actor.
Known For

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.
Mr. Nice Guy

Private Detective Mike Hayes is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets strange teen David Prentice, who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows, the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?
Early Frost

A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Fast Talking

This short student film by Alex Proyas and Salik Silverstein re-envisions the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder, offering a different explanation for the problem of witness nonintervention.
Groping

Deja-vu, as an ex-detective turned best selling true crime author is confronted by the copycat unsolved serial killings he investigated as a cop ten years ago. And now, all fingers are pointed in his direction. This, compounded by Todd's severe, mysterious headaches and his untimely discovery that he's been adopted, turn his life into his own worst nightmare.
Dead End

When a comical mob bag-man rats out the local mob boss, the bagman's cousin must rescue him from both the mob and the cops so he can testify at the grand jury.
Trojan Warrior

This short film (entitled 'Neon') was shot in Australia, 1980, by Alex Proyas and Salik Silverstein and also served as a music video for Fad Gadget's second single 'Ricky's Hand'. The video consists of single-frame time-lapse journey through Sydney by night.
Neon
When Sophie's husband Sam runs off with a younger woman, she sets a trap of delicious revenge and nothing is going to stop her from getting what she wants.