Background
Freeman was born and raised in Long Beach, California on December 5, 1969.
Freeman was born and raised in Long Beach, California on December 5, 1969.
Freeman attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he worked for the campus newspaper, the Daily Nexus. He graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in film studies. He later entered New York University"s Graduate Film Program where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 1996.
He started making films as a teenager, basing them off of Miami Vice. He spent the following year in Paris, France working for Why Not Productions and studying film theory at the Sorbonne. Early career and Hurricane Streets
During the summer of 1994 while still enrolled at New York University, Morgan met Todd Solondz while doing an internship.
Solondz hired Morgan to work on the crew of his upcoming film, Welcome to the Dollhouse, where he was promoted from production assistant to second assistant director
Hurricane Streets served as Freeman"s thesis at New York University, against instruction to avoid using feature films. Sexton III"s character from Welcome to the Dollhouse inspired Freeman to write Hurricane Streets, which he originally wanted to name Hurricane but was unable to due to the closeness to the Denzel Washington feature The Hurricane.
The film was bought by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at Sundance. Further film projects
Following the critical success of Hurricane Streets, Freeman wrote and directed Desert Blue.
The film was distributed by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and re-teamed Freeman with Brendan Sexton III. The film starred Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Ethan Suplee, Peter Sarsgaard and Kate Hudson (in her film debut).
In 2000, Freeman wrote and directed The Cherry Picker for Showtime starring Janeane Garofalo. He directed several music videos, including two for the breakout indie band Rilo Kiley, and directed the teen hit Dawson"s Creek for The World Bank. In 2001, Freeman directed American Psycho 2 for Lions Gate Entertainment. In 2003, he helmed the independent feature Piggy Banks, which starred Gabriel Mann, Kelli Garner and Tom Sizemore.
The film stars Mark Webber, Brendan Sexton III and Rosie Perez.
Freeman directed the 2009 film Homecoming, starring Mischa Barton. Television projects
Freeman produced the Music Television reality television show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.
In 2007, he created and executive produced the television series Maui Fever, another Music Television reality series. He also produced the Music Television reality shows 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom.