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

Sydney is Associate Producer of the award-winning A24 + Plan B feature film The Last Black Man in San Francisco (New York Times Critics’s Pick, 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 Vimeo Staff Pick 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 Emmy and Golden Globe nominated comedy series Insecure as Producer’s Assistant to Show Creator Issa Rae.

On Participant’s Academy Award-winning Narrative Film and Production team Sydney supported the development of standout projects at the nexus of art and activism, including Kahlil Joseph’s critically acclaimed BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions. She previously served as Director of Development within Warner Bros. Television, where she developed projects by inspired creative voices from historically excluded backgrounds. At the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program as Interim Manager of Producing & Artist Support, she provided bespoke creative and strategic support of Sundance’s innovative slate of feature film projects, managing the development and execution of dynamic artist programming for the 2023 Producers Lab and Fellowship. Most recently she worked as Special Projects Consultant at Film Independent in partnership with Netflix and FX, co-leading the development and execution of the 2024 Amplifier Fellowship Residency and Imaginar TV Incubator, awarding nearly $200,000 in unrestricted grants to 12 exemplary Black and Latinx filmmakers. Sydney is currently an SFFILM FilmHouse Creative Advisory Board Member.

Sydney has served as LA County Arts and Culture Grant Panelist, SFFILM Industry Days Advisor, Telluride Film Festival Screener and as a Creative Development Script Reader Consultant for the Sundance Institute Feature Film Labs, Film Independent 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