Sydney Freeland

Writer/Director

Sydney Freeland is an Emmy-nominated film and TV writer and director. Her TV directing work spans a wide range of shows including Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Grey’s Anatomy, Fear The Walking Dead, The Wilds, and Rutherford Falls among others. Freeland also wrote and directed for the FX show Reservation Dogs, Executive Produced by Taika Waititi & Sterlin Harjo. Her debut feature, Drunktown’s Finest, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was Executive Produced by Robert Redford. The film was influenced by her experience growing up on the Navajo reservation. Freeland’s second feature was the Netflix Original film Deidra and Laney Rob A Train, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Freeland is currently in post-production on the upcoming Marvel Studios project Echo, where she worked as both Co-Executive Producer and series Director.