Sydney Freeland

Sydney Freeland

1980-10-29 Gallup, New Mexico, USA 10 Credits

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.

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Rez Ball

Rez Ball

2024

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

6.5
Directing Writing Producing

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

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo

2024

as Self - Director / Executive Producer

5.9
Acting

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

Seeds

2022

Thanks

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

Prey

Prey

2022

Thanks

7.7

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

Seeing is Believing: Women Direct

2017

as Self

Acting

“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

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

2017

Director

5.6
Directing

After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.

Drunktown's Finest

Drunktown's Finest

2014

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

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

Hoverboard

2012

Director, Writer, Producer

Directing Writing Producing

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

The Thick Dark Fog

2011

Assistant Editor

8.0

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

Directing

A small group of Native Americans struggle to survive in a bleak and unrelenting apocalypse brought about by global warming.