ABOUT

Mark Freiburger is an award-winning filmmaker with experience in feature films, television, commercials, branded content, and corporate marketing.

He achieved tremendous acclaim for directing the ‘Greatest Super Bowl Ad of All Time’ as named by CBS - which won the “Doritos Crash the Super Bowl” contest, beating out 5,000 other filmmakers. His commercial was the #1 ranked :30 ad of the 2013 Super Bowl according to the USA Today Ad Meter, and received over 4.2 Billion social media impressions - the most in Doritos/Frito Lay advertising history. He has since produced, directed, and edited countless commercials, corporate films, and social branded content for dozens of global companies over the years, including a 3-year stint as the Sr. Producer/Director/Editor for the in-house creative ad agency at Accenture, a Fortune 500 company.

In Film, he was mentored by legendary blockbuster director Michael Bay on the set of TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, shooting in the U.S. and Hong Kong. Early in his career, he directed and produced his first indie feature DOG DAYS OF SUMMER, then went on to write and produce THE TRIAL (20th Century Fox), after producing a handful of other low budget indie features, including UNREQUITED starring Justin Baldoni. He wrote the British indie film BIRCHES based on the Adrian Plass novel “Silver Birches”, released in 2019. He was hired as an additional screenwriter to rewrite the Hilary Swank film ORDINARY ANGELS, which was released by Lionsgate in theaters in February 2024 - grossing over $20MM at the U.S. Box Office. He recently wrote and directed the Angel Studios’ feature BETWEEN BORDERS - based on a true story about an Armenian refugee family in the 1980s Soviet Union. Despite being released in limited theaters on an unconventional Sunday evening-only release, it sold out theaters across the U.S. and grossed over half a million dollars to become the #15 highest grossing film at the U.S. box office on January 26th, 2025.

Mark has a select handful of new features in development, including ARISE, based on the story of Deborah from the Book of Judges - ancient Israel’s one and only female leader. FOLLOW BY NIGHT, a supernatural story of faith set in Portugal. And SOMEPLACE ELSE, based on the incredible true story of a midwestern housewife who became an unlikely revolutionary during the 1980s AIDS epidemic. He is currently serving as an Executive Producer on a new feature film starring Billy Magnussen, which began production in Fall 2025.

In TV, he was a segment producer on the PBS documentary series DOWNING OF A FLAG, which was nominated for ‘Best Historical Documentary’ at the 2022 Emmy Awards and at the 2022 Peabody Awards. He and his team are currently in development on a “Preachers N’ Sneakers” TV series adaptation of the wildly viral Instagram account and book of the same name. That project was originally sold to 20th Century Television.

On Stage, Mark directed the play “110 STORIES” at Los Angeles’ prestigious Geffen Playhouse, which starred Academy Award nominee John Hawkes, Emmy-Award Winner Ed Asner, musical sensation Katharine McPhee, and numerous others.

Mark joined the Producers Guild of America in 2011, and he serves as an active board member of The Hope Project in Matagalpa, Nicaragua where he and his team are dedicated to serving one of the most marginalized communities in the Western Hemisphere.