Brydie O’Connor is a Kansas-born, NYC based filmmaker.

Her work activates archives through queering storytelling structures within the nonfiction space. Brydie’s work has been presented at Sundance, Berlinale, BFI, The Centre Pompidou, and The Museum of Modern Art, among other festivals and museums worldwide. Her debut feature documentary, BARBARA FOREVER, was awarded the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, and won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the 2026 Berlinale. Brydie also received the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at the 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Jury Special Mention for the John Schlesinger Award for a first-time filmmaker at the 2026 Provincetown International Film Festival.

Brydie 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) in residence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Her work has been supported by NYSCA, New York Foundation for the Arts, Frameline, Dok.Leipzig, Ji.hlava IDFF, Cinéma du Réel, and others. 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, Brydie’s credits include THE LION QUEEN on HBO, LIFE AFTER (Sundance, 2025), WE ARE PAT (Tribeca, 2025) I'M YOUR VENUS (Tribeca, 2024), LONG TIME SUN (SXSW, 2024), BREAKING FORM (Dance on Camera Lincoln Center, 2024), and THE SOUND OF THE STONEWALL UPRISING (2024) for the debut installation of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in NYC. Forthcoming projects include a documentary feature in post-production for Hulu, and MARSHA, a feature-length documentary on Marsha P. Johnson, directed by Tourmaline.

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