Viridiana Lieberman is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She most recently edited The Perfect Neighbor which world premiered at Sundance in 2025 and won the U.S. Documentary directing award. She’s edited many features and series, most notably the Emmy-award winning films The Sentence, I Am Evidence, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power and Through Our Eyes: Apart and the Oscar shortlisted Call Center Blues. An avid women’s sports fan, her directorial debut, Born To Play premiered on ESPN and ABC in 2020. Following a semi-professional women’s tackle football team for a season, the film was a result of her book Sports Heroines on Film (published by McFarland) which analyzed patterns of representations of female athletes throughout film history. Other notable projects she's edited are Sony Pictures Classic’s Carlos, the ESPN 30 for 30: Breakaway and The Criterion Channel’s Queer Futures series. Viridiana wants to be a part of creating specific work that pushes storytelling into new forms of approach. Always rooting with the personal character-driven narratives that shape not only our imaginations but how we see the world we want to be in.