Sydney Freeland

Directing

Sydney Freeland

Born 1980-10-29 · Gallup, New Mexico, USA

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Hoverboard poster
NR

After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real, working Hoverboard.

Hoverboard

2012

Hoverboard poster
NR

After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real, working Hoverboard.

Hoverboard

2012

Hoverboard poster
NR

After watching Back to the Future 2, an imaginative young girl and her stuffed teddy bear try to invent a real, working Hoverboard.

Hoverboard

2012

Rez Ball poster
6.4

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

2024

Rez Ball poster
6.4

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

2024

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train poster
5.6

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

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

2017

Drunktown's Finest poster
6.1

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.

Drunktown's Finest

2014

Drunktown's Finest poster
6.1

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.

Drunktown's Finest

2014

No artwork available
NR

A small group of Native Americans struggle to survive in a bleak and unrelenting apocalypse brought about by global warming.

The Migration

2008