Sydney Freeland

Directing

Biography

Sydney Freeland (born October 29, 1980) is a Native American filmmaker. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. She wrote and directed the film Drunktown's Finest (2014), which garnered numerous accolades after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Her second film, Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, debuted at Sundance and was released on Netflix in 2017; her third, Rez Ball, was released in 2024. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sydney Freeland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Seeing is Believing: Women Direct

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“We are the stories we tell ourselves.” Seeing is Believing: Women Direct is a documentary series about directors, leaders… who happen to be women.Audiences will hear directly from women who are on the front lines of the field: from major award winners to NYU students, festival darlings to frustrated auteurs. They will discover the pathways to successful creativity as well as how these filmmakers drive through obstacles creative, cultural, and professional. The film ultimately will act as a toolbox for any filmmaker as well as “peer to peer mentorship” for any person who is looking for creative or professional guidance as they move toward their own dreams of being a visual storyteller.

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Seeing is Believing: Women Direct

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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo

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Join us on a revealing journey behind-the-scenes of Maya Lopez’s own groundbreaking series. Witness how the production took unprecedented steps to portray the deaf experience, and Native American culture truthfully. Spend time with powerhouse actor Vincent D’Onofrio as he brings the Kingpin to monstrous life once again. All this and more waits to be discovered in "Assembled: The Making of Echo."

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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo

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Production

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Drunktown's Finest

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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 promiscuous but gorgeous Nádleehi (trans person) – search for love and acceptance.

Rez Ball

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After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams alive.

Prey

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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 to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

Drunktown's Finest

The Thick Dark Fog

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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 to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were beaten, humiliated or abused if they spoke their language or expressed their culture or native identity in any way. The trauma led many to alcoholism and violence in adulthood. At age 58, Walter began writing his memoirs as a way to explain his own abusive behaviors to his estranged children, but he could not complete the project without confronting the “thick dark fog” of his past so he could heal.

Seeds

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

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

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

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Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

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Rez Ball

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After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams alive.

Rez Ball

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After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams alive.