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 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, & DOC NYC, among other festivals and galleries worldwide. Her debut feature documentary, BARBARA FOREVER, is premiering in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival with a subsequent international premiere at the 2026 Berlinale.

Most recently, 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 (Untitled Filmmaker Organization) Short 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, Brydie’s credits include 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 forthcoming documentary features in post-production for both HBO and Hulu, in addition to THE SOUND OF THE STONEWALL UPRISING (2024) for the debut installation of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in NYC.