VIRIDIANA LIEBERMAN is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She edited the feature documentaries The Sentence (HBO), which won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival US Documentary Audience Award and the 2019 Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and I Am Evidence (HBO) which won the 2019 News & Doc Emmy for Best Documentary and the short documentary, Through Our Eyes: Apart (HBO Max) which won the 2021-2022 News & Doc Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary. She also edited Love the Sinner (Tribeca Film Festival), Special Olympics: 50 Years of Changing the Game (ABC/ESPN), Stonewall: The Making of a Monument (New York Times Op-Docs), Call Center Blues (Oscar Shortlisted, 2020), We Are: The Brooklyn Saints (Netflix), Breakaway (ESPN 30 for 30), Reopening Night (HBO) and Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (Peacock), which won the 2023 News & Doc Emmy for Research in Documentary and for which she was nominated for the 2023 News & Doc Emmy for Outstanding Editing in Documentary.
In 2020, Lieberman was a highlighted honoree in DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 list and her solo directorial debut, Born To Play, premiered on ESPN and ABC (currently available on Peacock). An avid sports fan, Viridiana is also the author of Sports Heroines on Film: A Critical Study of Cinematic Women Athletes, Coaches and Owners, published by McFarland. Most recently she edited Carlos, Sony Picture Classics and Imagine Entertainment’s Carlos Santana feature documentary and the Multitude Films Queer Futures series currently available on The Criterion Channel. She also supervised the edit on the series Choir for Disney+. Her latest film she edited, The Perfect Neighbor, is world premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.