10 Facts About Sydney Freeland

Sydney Freeland wrote and directed the film Drunktown's Finest, which garnered numerous acclaims after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.

Sydney Freeland attended Academy of Art University in San Francisco and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in computer animation and a Master of Fine Arts in film.

Sydney Freeland is a 2004 Fulbright scholar, who focused her scholarship on a field study of Indigenous peoples in Ecuador.

Sydney Freeland received a 2007 Disney Scholarship and was a 2008 Disney Fellowship semifinalist.

Sydney Freeland worked for a number of different media companies, including The Food Network, Walt Disney, Comedy Central, and National Geographic.

Sydney Freeland directed a six-minute short, Hoverboard, utilizing Kickstarter to help fund the short.

Sydney Freeland wrote and directed Drunktown's Finest as a way to combat negative stereotypes of her home community.

Sydney Freeland, who is herself a transgender woman, directed a digital series about queer and trans women called Her Story.

In 2014 Sydney Freeland was named a United States Artists Fellow.

On March 19,2022, Sydney Freeland joined as a director for the upcoming superhero streaming series Echo for Disney+.