Viieberman

Viridiana Lieberman





Viridiana has edited many features and series, most notably the award-winning documentaries, The Perfect Neighbor, The Sentence, I Am Evidence, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, Through Our Eyes: Apart and 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 won the Critic Choice Documentary award for best Editing in 2026 for The Perfect Neighbor and in an unprecedented action, the Critics Choice Association also nominated her in the main Critics Choice Awards making her the first documentary editor to receive a nomination among the year’s top fiction work.

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.








WORK




The Perfect Neighbor
Editor
Netflix A seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Told primarily through police bodycam footage and investigative interviews the film exposes the consequences of Florida's "stand your ground" laws. 






Eyes on the Prize III
Editor - S3 E4 “Spoil the Vine”
HBO A propulsive narrative chronicling the fight for racial justice in America, from Obama’s election to Black Lives Matter, highlighting the heroic individuals who sparked change. 





Big Dreams: Little League World Series 2024
Supervising Editor
ESPN Experience the moments, emotions and triumps of Little League World Series from Williamsport, Va.





Choir
Supervising Editor
Disney+ Choir is a 6-part documentary series following the kids of the Detroit Youth Choir as they prepare for the performance of a lifetime.




Queer Futures
Editor
The Criterion ChannelThe QUEER FUTURES series centers joy and connection to radically imagine future visions of queer life. Four short films explore gender affirming healthcare, fat beauty and liberation, nonbinary ballroom culture, and the anonymous connections of a decades-old LGBTQ hotline.




Carlos
Editor
Sony Pictures Classics The electric documentary CARLOS utilizes new interviews with Santana and his family alongside extraordinary, never-before-seen archival footage — including home video recordings Santana himself made; concert footage; and behind-the-scenes moments




Jackrabbit Homestead
Editor

 JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD is a psychological thriller about a woman seeking forgiveness in the unforgiving desert.


Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Editor/Co-Producer
Peacock The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished town with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a town that was eighty percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper without power. This isn’t a story of hope but of action. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County.








Reopening Night
Editor 
HBO Follows the cast, crew and staff of the world-famous Public Theater and the obstacles they face as they prepare to mount an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Merry Wives."



Through Our Eyes 
Editor - S1 E1 “Apart”
HBO Max Through Our Eyes spotlights the perspectives of children as they experience some of the most challenging issues facing families today – homelessness, parental incarceration, military caregiving, and climate displacement – in four 30-minute films designed for adults and as a co-viewing experience for kids ages 9 and older.






30 for 30
Editor - S4 EP15 “Breakaway”
ESPN Maya Moore was one of the best women's basketball players in the world when she stepped away from the sport for a remarkable reason: to fight for a man she believed was wrongly imprisoned. Breakaway chronicles a search for justice, and a relationship that changed the lives of two people forever.



We Are: The Brooklyn Saints
Lead Editor
Netflix We Are: The Brooklyn Saints is a 4 part series that centers on a Brooklyn youth football program and its selfless coaches who provide a safe haven for kids to compete and learn lessons that will take them far in life. 


The Process of Recovering
Editor The Process of Recovering is the account of activist Marcia Wickham's journey from trauma to recovery. Over forty years, she overcomes childhood incest and escapes fundamentalist Christianity to achieve self-discovery and fulfillment.


Born To Play
Director/Editor/Producer
ESPN Born to Play spends a season with the Boston Renegades, a women’s tackle football team on the path to redemption after going undefeated but losing their championship the previous year. These unpaid athletes put their bodies on the line while maintaining full-time careers that support their lifelong dream. 


Call Center Blues
Editor
Call Center Blues is a lyrical portrait of an unlikely community of US deportees and their loved ones struggling to rebuild their lives in Tijuana, Mexico.



Stonewall: The Making of a Monument
Editor
The New York Times Op-Docs "Stonewall: The Making of a Monument" explores the celebrated, complicated, and contentious legacy of Stonewall and the ways in which this small corner of New York City has become hallowed ground for many LGBTQ folks around the world.



The Sentence
Editor/Writer
HBO

Filmmaker Rudy Valdez shows the aftermath of his sister Cindy's 15-year sentence for conspiracy charges related to crimes committed by her deceased ex-boyfriend. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.






I Am Evidence
Editor
HBO An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.






BOOK


Sports Heroines on Film

Published by McFarland






It's hard to find females in leading roles as athletes, coaches and owners in sports film story lines. With an abundance of male-focused stories, Hollywood continues to reinforce the association of athleticism with masculinity. 

Portrayals of women in prominent roles indicate social attitudes and values and -- when looked at over time -- also show what influence the women's movement has had on cinematic representation and social understandings. 

This discussion of sports film heroines begins with National Velvet (1944) and ends with Secretariat (2010). It addresses the question of whether these story lines do or do not empower women as characters and role models, while offering alternative cinematic choices that reflect the true and ever-growing history of women in sports.

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