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EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the Sundance premiere of the feature documentary Barbara Forever, Cinetic Media has inked the film’s director and producer Brydie O’Connor across all media.
O’Connor’s feature directorial debut about pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer premiered in the US Documentary Competition and will have its international premiere in the Berlinale Forum.
The archive-driven exploration of the filmmaker’s work is produced by Claire Edelman and Elijah Stevens and executive produced by Killer Films’ Christine Vachon.
O’Connor is a Kansas-born, New York-based filmmaker. Her work has been supported by Creative Capital. Hot Docs, New York Foundation for the Arts, Frameline, and the Stonewall Foundation; and has been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, BFI, and DOC NYC, among other festivals and galleries worldwide. Most recently, O’Connor was selected as the recipient of the Creative Capital State of the Art Prize for New York (2026), the Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator (2023), and she was an inaugural fellow in the UFO Film Lab (2023-2024). She is a graduate of The George Washington University, and has developed her work at the Provincetown Film Society LGBTQ+ Filmmakers Residency (2024) and the On:View Residency (2024) in Savannah, GA.
As an archival producer, O’Connor’s credits include Life After (Sundance, 2025), We Are Pat (Tribeca, 2025) Netflix’s I’m Your Venus (Tribeca, 2024), Long Time Sun (SXSW, 2024), Breaking Form (Dance on Camera Lincoln Center, 2024), and a forthcoming documentary feature in post-production for HBO, in addition to The Sound of the Stonewall Uprising (2024) for the debut installation of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in NYC.
Cinetic Media’s management practice represents directors, writers, and producers, including Morgan Neville, Richard Linklater, Todd Haynes, Killer Films, World of Wonder, David Osit, Betsy West & Julie Cohen, Yance Ford, Petra Costa, Pete Nicks, Carla Gutierrez, and Kevin Macdonald.
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