Brit Fryer

Brit Fryer is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago's South Side, currently based in New York City. His most recent film, Tessitura, co-directed with Lydia Cornett, explores how voice, character, and gender are entangled and reformulated in opera by those who contend with these connections daily. The film won the Outstanding Documentary Short Award at Frameline 2025 and the Academy Award Qualifying Best Short Film at Mountainfilm 2025. He is also the co-director of The Script, which premiered on The New Yorker and Criterion Channel. His other films include Caro Comes Out, Across, Beyond and Over, and Trans·Ience. As a producer, his work includes Crystal Kayiza’s Rest Stop, which won the Short Film Jury Award for US Fiction at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. He has received generous support from Creative Culture, the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Gotham Film and Media Institute, Points North Institute, and Film Fatales. He is currently working on his feature debut, With Time.