title: Mark Freiburger
text: # Mark Freiburger
  
  Stephen Mark Freiburger (born July 16, 1983) is an American filmmaker.
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  * Graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2005.
  
  ## Film work
  
  * Writer/Director of the upcoming feature film Follow By Night produced by Endeavor Content.
  * Co-Writer of the upcoming feature film Arise produced by Sycamore Pictures and Third Coast Content.
  * Writer of Birches UK based feature. Based on the novel 'Silver Birches' (published in 2009 by Adrian Plass), was turned into a film starring Natasha Little, Anna Acton and Todd Carty.
  * Shadowed Michael Bay in an apprenticeship program on Transformers: Age of Extinction.
  * Wrote and produced The Trial, starring Matthew Modine, Bob Gunton and Robert Forster. Released by 20th Century Fox.
  * Directed and produced Dog Days of Summer. Feature directorial debut. Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  
  ## Commercial work
  
  * Winner of the 2013 Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest. His commercial Fashionista Daddy made for a mere $300 beat out thousands of other entries, aired during Super Bowl XLVII on February 3, 2013, and was the #1 ranked :30 commercial of the Super Bowl on the USA Today Ad Meter. It landed him a mentorship under director Michael Bay on Transformers: Age of Extinction starring Mark Wahlberg.
  * On January 29, 2014, it was announced during a live broadcast on CBS that his Doritos commercial was ranked the Greatest Super Bowl Commercial of All Time on a countdown of the top 10 commercials in Super Bowl history.
  * Directed 2 commercials for Join.Me in 2016–2017.
  * Directed a PSA featuring Jamie Lee Curtis for The Clare Foundation in 2016.
  * Directed an IKEA commercial in South Korea for Spring/Summer 2017 campaign.
  * Directed a campaign of national broadcast commercials for Samaritan's Feet in 2017–2018.
  * Directed a Microsoft branded film in 2019.
  * Directed commercials for Reebok, Fara Coffee, Becker Vineyards, Rodney Vineyards, Accenture and Shiner Bock in 2020–2021.
  
  ## Television work
  
  * Directed the Cooper & Joey digital pilot for Nickelodeon.
  * Directed sketch comedy digital shorts for DreamWorksTV.
  * Directed the Strong Tower pilot starring Claire Coffee.
  * Producer on the 2021 Emmy-Award nominated PBS series Downing of the Flag.
  
  ## Theatre work
  
  * Directed 110 Stories at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse in 2010, which starred Academy Award nominee John Hawkes, Katharine McPhee, Ed Asner, Diane Venora, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Michael Welch, Nicholas Turturro, Michael Beach and Sharon Lawrence.
  
  ## Other work
  
  * Directed Season 1 of the narrative podcast series BLACKWOOD, produced by Wondery. Released in October 2018.
  