Sydney Freeland

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Award-Winning LGBTQ Navajo Filmmaker & Emmy-Nominated Director

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Sydney Freeland Biography

Sydney Freeland is an award-winning LGBTQ Navajo filmmaker. She most recently directed Netflix's "Rez Ball," a feature she co-wrote with Sterlin Harjo on basketball's importance to Indigenous communities, with LeBron James attached as a producer. She also sold her pilot "Sovereign," which she co-wrote with Shaz Bennett, to NBC with WBTV and Ava Duvernay producing. She is also attached to direct "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," based on the book by Sherman Alexie, which is set up at 3000 Pictures with Lauren Schuler Donner, Hugh Jackman, and Temple Hill producing.

Previously, Freeland directed the Netflix Original Feature, "Deidra & Laney Rob a Train," which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, as well as "Drunktown’s Finest," which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was executive produced by Robert Redford. Her television directing credits include "Reservation Dogs" for FX; "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" for Paramount+; "Rutherford Falls" for Peacock; "The Walking Dead: World Beyond" for AMC; "Fear the Walking Dead" for AMC; "Chambers" for Netflix; "Nancy Drew" for the CW, among others and she directed every episode of the 2016 Emmy nominated web-series, "Her Story."

Freeland is a member of the inaugural 2019 ReFrame Rise WIF class, was a part of the 2015 Fox Global Directors Initiative, and was a 2007 Disney Scholar. In 2022, she was included in the Fast Company Queer 50 list.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/25/2024.

Sydney Freeland Videos

  • The Lines We Love - Sydney Freeland on The Assassination of ...
    The Black List & The Autograph Collection present Sydney Freeland on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, screenplay by Andrew...
  • Sydney Freeland | On Netflix & Maintaining Creative Freedom
    Director Sydney Freeland talks about working with Netflix & Maintaining Creative Freedom. SPECIAL SUNDANCE EDITION of the Indie Film Hustle Podcast.
  • Interview With Director Sydney Freeland - Sundance Film Fest
    Director Sydney Freeland discusses her upcoming film "Drunktown's Finest" that premiered at Sundance.

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