Sydney Linden

Sydney Bowie Linden is a documentary director and cinematographer based in Southern California. She discovered her love of filmmaking as an undergraduate at University of California, Los Angeles, where she began crafting intimate, character-driven documentaries grounded in observational filmmaking. In 2016, Sydney received a Fulbright Grant to work on her first feature-length film ¡Boza!, which screened at Academy Award-Qualifying film festivals and was a Semifinalist for the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund. Her work has been featured on The New Yorker Documentary Series and has received selection from festivals across the United States, including Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Heartland International Film Festival, Slamdance Cinema Club, Mountainfilm Festival, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Sun Valley Film Festival, and Newport Beach Film Festival. In June of 2021, Sydney received her M.F.A. in Documentary Film from Stanford University. She is currently in development on a new feature length documentary with the Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning production company Film 45.

Film 45, Director and Producer, May 2022-present

Currently in development directing, producing and shooting new feature length documentary Stacked with Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning production company Film 45. 

Circle Studios, Producer, Jul 2021-Jan 2022

Worked as a producer and b-camera operator on a 6-part documentary series funded by Protocol Labs. Duties included but not limited to pre-production research and casting, hiring crew, organizing and scheduling shoots, story producing (creating stringouts and paper edits in Adobe Premiere), assistant editing, writing interview questions, booking travel, budgeting, instituting covid protocol, developing and maintaining workflow systems for entire crew and staff.

The New Yorker, Director and Producer, May 2021-Jul 2022

Directed, produced, shot and edited two films released on The New Yorker Documentary Series, The Space Between (2021) and Black Gold (2022). Additionally worked as a Director of Photography on the short film The Act of Coming Out (2022).

Amazon Music, Editor, Jun 2020-Nov 2020
Editor for short documentary series “Frying an Egg With,” which featured various LA based musicians.

The Thacher School, Artist in Residence and Film Teacher, Aug 2017-Jun 2019

Fulbright Scholar, Documentary Film Fulbright Scholar, Sep 2016-Jun 2017

Robert Kenner Films, Intern, Jun 2013-Jun 2014

Stanford University, MFA in Documentary Film & Video (2021)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, BA Art History Honors (2014); Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa