Max Steuer admired Walkabout to Cornwall and he invited Sykes to direct The Committee. It led to him meeting Peter Brook who invited Sykes to produce Tell Me Lies. The series was called Britain Around the World. He was commissioned to make a series of films for the British Pavilion exhibit at Expo 67 in Montreal. Sykes did an 18-month training cadetship with the BBC then made the documentary Walkabout to Cornwall. Sykes worked for Levy as an assistant on the film Herostratus. He wrote to a fellow Australian, Donald Levy, admiring a documentary Levy had made called Time In. He was born in Melbourne and worked as a dancer, then as an assistant director on documentaries and children's shows on Australian television.
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