01/23/2021
In honor of Female Filmmaker Friday, Sydney Freeland, a transgender Navajo filmmaker. She wrote and directed the short film Hoverboard (2012) and the film Drunktown's Finest (2014), which garnered numerous acclaims at the Sundance Film Festival. Her second film, Deidra and Laney Rob a Train debuted at Sundance and was released on Netflix in 2017. Freeland is currently working on, the first-ever broadcast TV show centering on Native Americans, she co-wrote (with Shaz Bennett) and has signed on to executive produce with Bird Runningwater and Ava DuVernay under DuVernay's production company, Array Filmworks. Her list of TV directing credits includes The Wilds, Rutherford Falls, Grey's Anatomy, P-Valley, Nancy Drew, and Fear the Walking Dead.