Brit Fryer

Brit Fryer is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago's South Side, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His unique approach to nonfiction storytelling centers on gender and queerness through process-forward and collaborative methods. His film, The Script, co-directed with Noah Schamus, unpacks the boundaries of language and the role of performance in shaping and imagining a more expansive and gender-expansive healthcare system. The film was shortlisted for the 2023 IDA Awards and won the Creative Activism Award at the 2024 SIMA Awards. As a producer,  Fryer’s work includes Crystal Kayiza’s Rest Stop, which won the Short Film Jury Award for US Fiction at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. His other credits include Lydia Cornett’s Bug Farm (PBS) and Casey Friedman’s Pentartarmex Rabitular (Short of the Week). His films have been screened in theatres and festivals internationally, including Blackstar, CPH: DOX, Newfest, Indie Grits, Nitehawk and MIX NYC. Fryer is a codirector of Tessitura (Mountainfilm 2025).