Academy and Emmy Award winner Freida Lee Mock is a director, writer and producer of feature length and short form theatrical documentary films. Her 5 Academy Award nominations include the winner Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, a National Film Registry selection and feature film about creativity and the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Her other Oscar nominees are Rose Kennedy, a Life to Remember; SING! about a world renowned children’s choir; Never Give UP about the conductor and holocaust survivor Dr. Herbert Zipper; and To Live or Let Die, a story about medical ethics in an ICU for new born babies.  

In recognition of her films Freida received the AFI Guggenheim Honor, the Art and Advocacy Award from the Western Center on Law and Poverty, the International Documentary Association Career Achievement Award, the Cascadia International Women’s Award and the Doclands Honor.

Freida is now completing for a 2026 global release “Sadako’s Gift,” the amazing true story of young Sadako Sasaki and her Thousand Cranes and the worldwide peace movement she inspired.