Photo by Jim Lafferty
Sidney began as a dancer working on commercials and music videos, and quickly transitioned to acting, booking roles on series and films like iZombie & Bang Bang Baby. She was first introduced to production, working on commercials as a coordinator. Within her first few months she was invited to be the b-unit producer on singer/songwriter Drake’s short film Jungle. To follow this experience Sidney wrote, produced and acted in (rough cut) -- a short film exploring sexual politics on set. (rough cut) premiered at TIFF, was selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick, and screened at the MoMA NYC in association with The Future of Film is Female.
In recent news… Sidney produced air head & Deflated, two of the first films to use OpenAI's text-to-video model Sora. And is currently producing shylo, an animated musical directed by creative collective shy kids. She’s also writing, directing & acting in her next original short; a psychological thriller entitled I Hate Babies .
