Sydney Freeland
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Sydney Freeland is a Navajo trans woman with light brown skin in front of a white background. She is wearing a white tank top with a black undershirt peeking out from underneath. She has long black hair pulled onto her left side flowing onto her chest. She is wearing black eyeliner and black glasses.

Job title
filmmaker   director  
Identity categories
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trans woman   Indigenous   Scottish   Navajo  
Places of practice

United States of America

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Sydney Freeland is a Navajo trans woman with light brown skin in front of a white background. She is wearing a white tank top with a black undershirt peeking out from underneath. She has long black hair pulled onto her left side flowing onto her chest. She is wearing black eyeliner and black glasses.

Sydney Freeland is a Navajo trans woman with light brown skin in front of a white background. She is wearing a white tank top with a black undershirt peeking out from underneath. She has long black hair pulled onto her left side flowing onto her chest. She is wearing black eyeliner and black glasses.

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Biography

Sydney Freeland is an Emmy-nominated film and TV director. Her debut feature, Drunktown’s Finest, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and went on to receive the Jury Prize at LA Outfest. She also directed the digital series Her Story, which received an Emmy nomination in 2016 for Short Form Series. Her second feature, the Netflix original film Deidra and Laney Rob A Train, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and is currently streaming in 190 countries. Additionally, Sydney has directed episodes for Grey’s Anatomy and the upcoming Heathers.

Free The Bid. “Sydney Freeland.” Accessed July 11, 2022. https://www.freethebid.com/directors/sydney-freeland/.
Filmography
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    film/video, 2012

    Director, Writer/Screenwriter/Story

References
Athone, Tristan, and 2019 Like Tweet Email Print. “Characters on the Margins: An Interview with Sydney Freeland.” High Country News, June 10, 2019. https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-characters-on-the-margins-an-interview-with-sydney-freeland.Graver, David. “‘Drunktown’s Finest’ Director Sydney Freeland On Growing Up Navajo and Trans.” Vice, February 22, 2015. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd5n54/trans-and-navajo-drunktowns-finest-999.