Biography
Sydney Freeland is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Her debut feature, “Drunktown’s Finest,” premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and went on to receive the Jury Prize at LA Outfest and a GLAAD Media Award nomination. She also directed the web-series “Her Story,” which received an Emmy nomination and won a Gotham Award.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rez Ball
2024
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams ali...

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo
2024
as Self - Director / Executive Producer
Join us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series. Witness how the production took unprecedented steps to por...

Seeds
2022
Thanks
Without parents to guide them, two girls reflect on the love their parents modeled and the grief of their loss.

Prey
2022
Thanks
When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out ...

Seeing is Believing: Women Direct
2017
as Self
“We are the stories we tell ourselves.” Seeing is Believing: Women Direct is a documentary series about directors, leaders… who happen to be women.Au...

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
2017
Director
After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.

Drunktown's Finest
2014
Director, Writer
On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a pro...

Hoverboard
2012
Director, Writer, Producer
After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real, working Hoverboard.

The Thick Dark Fog
2011
Assistant Editor
Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950, was still t...
The Migration
2008
Director
A small group of Native Americans struggle to survive in a bleak and unrelenting apocalypse brought about by global warming.