Cydney is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington; a Texas-raised filmmaker originally from San Antonio. She developed a passion for creative storytelling while attending the North East School of the Arts. After graduating from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Film and Media Arts in 2014, she worked as the Program Coordinator for the USA Film Festival. She currently serves as the Programs Chair for Women in Film Dallas for the second year in a row following the rewarding experience of being the Shorts Programmer for the 2016 Chick Flicks Festival. While she was a graduate teaching assistant at UTA she completed her thesis project, a pilot entitled “Group,” a dark comedy about a group therapy which has since won awards at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. She works in the DFW film community as an Assistant Director, Producer, and Script Supervisor while expanding her body of work that focuses on stories that explore the human condition and the expressions of trauma, adversity, and mental illness.
We are proud to present a story about Queer Love. With women comprising more than 60% of all production roles including directing & producing and a cast/crew as ethnically and gender-diverse as all the types of love stories that exist out in the world, we are sure you’ll fall head over heels in love with “Old Flames” too.
We aimed to take a classic genre of story-telling, romantic-comedy, and re-envision it in a more modern format. By placing a Queer man of color at the center of this story, we gave ourselves the liberty to reconstruct just exactly what “rom-coms” are about and remind ourselves that love and the way it affects us, is always a universal experience.
TURN IT AROUND, 9min., Netherlands, LGBT/Drama
CRUSH, 16min., USA, LGBT/Thriller
AD LIB, 7min., USA, LGBT/Romance
GAMERS, 10min., USA, LGBT/Drama 
CHANDELIER, 9min., Greece, LGBT/Comedy 
DOST, 41min., Netherlands, LGBT/Drama
LGBT Los Angeles Film Festival 