ABOUT

Mark Freiburger is an award-winning filmmaker with nearly 20 years experience in commercials, branded content, feature films, television, and corporate marketing.

In the commercial space, 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. That 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 produced and directed spots for multiple production companies over the years, including a 3-year stint as the Sr. Producer/Director/Editor for the in-house creative 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 made his own indie films DOG DAYS OF SUMMER (Sony Home Entertainment), and THE TRIAL (Fox Home Entertainment), and he was hired as an uncredited screenwriter to rewrite the Hillary Swank film ORDINARY ANGELS, which was released in theaters in February 2024 - grossing $20MM at the U.S. Box Office. He is currently in production on his newest indie feature BEYOND BORDERS - a true story about an Armenian refugee family set during the 1988 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The production is filming in Romania March-April 2024.

In TV, Mark recently sold his first scripted series to 20th Century Television, in which he will serve as Executive Producer alongside iconic Film & TV producer, Lee Daniels. In 2021, he was a segment producer on the PBS documentary DOWNING OF A FLAG, which was nominated for ‘Best Historical Documentary’ at the 2022 Emmy Awards. He also directed digital comedy shorts for DreamWorksTV.

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.