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Sydney Lowe (she/her) is a creative producer & executive working across TV, film & artist development with a deep passion for innovative, inclusive and artful storytelling.

Sydney is Associate Producer of the award-winning A24 + Plan B feature film The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Winner of Sundance’s 2019 Best Director Award & Special Grand Jury Prize for Creative Collaboration; Indie Spirit Award & Gotham Award nominee, President Barack Obama’s 2019 List of Best Films ), Executive Producer of HBO’s Lonely Blue Night (Winner of the 2020 HBO APA Visionaries Award, 2020 AFI Fest Official Selection & Audience Award Winner and 2021 Palm Springs International Official Selection) and began her career working on the HBO award-winning comedy series Insecure as Producer’s Assistant to Show Creator Issa Rae.

On Participant’s Narrative Film & Production team she supported the development of standout projects at the nexus of art and activism, including Kahlil Joseph’s upcoming BLKNWS with A24, among others. She previously served as Director of Development at Warner Bros. Television, where she developed projects by inspired creative voices from historically excluded backgrounds. Most recently, she worked at the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program as Interim Manager of Producing & Artist Support where she provided bespoke strategic support of Sundance’s innovative slate of feature films, and managed the development and execution of artist programming for the 2023 Producers Lab & Fellowship, working closely with Director Shira Rockowitz and Founding Senior Director of Artist Programs, Michelle Satter. Sydney is currently Special Projects Consultant at Film Independent, working in partnership with Netflix and FX Networks.

Additionally, Sydney was a previous Creative Development Reader for the Sundance Institute Feature Film Labs, Film Independent Episodic Labs, and the Sesame Street Writers’ Room Fellowship. Her body of work also includes branded and digital content for Refinery29, Kate Spade, and HBO. She is a Film Independent Fellow, a WarnerMedia Fellowship Award Winner, and a TIME'S UP Entertainment "Who's in the Room" Creative Producer Mentee.

As a photographer, her pictures have been published in PhotoVogue Italia, A24 Notes, Nylon.com, NPR, Spotify and Negative Feedback, as well as featured internationally in galleries and exhibition spaces in Italy, Mexico, San Francisco and New York. She is a former contributing writer for Constellation Magazine and co-curator of (Re)viewing Bodies: Selected American Photographs, featuring works by Gordon Parks, Diane Arbus and Lyle Ashton Harris. Sydney is also founder of ART GIRL ARMY, an art collective of inclusive female-identifying, transgender & gender-non conforming creatives (featured in Teen Vogue, New York Magazine's The Cut, and Artsy).

Sydney is inspired by the transformative powers of community, collaboration, interdisciplinary study, accessible resources and out-of-the-box thinking. A graduate of Wesleyan University, she currently lives in Los Angeles, but is forever a New Yorker at heart.

EMAIL syd.j.lowe@gmail.com

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