Viridiana Lieberman

Viridiana is a director and editor who has been a part of creating many award-winning features and series, most notably editing the Oscar-nominated The Perfect Neighbor and the Emmy-winning The Sentence, I Am Evidence, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, and Through Our Eyes: Apart. She most recently co-directed and edited the feature documentary Jean-Michel which world premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, winning the editing award. The film will be released on Netflix later this year. It’s a reclamation of what has been lost in the legacy of the globally renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, told through memories from his family, never-before-seen works, and rare archival. Her directorial debut was Born To Play which premiered on ESPN and ABC in 2020 and followed a semi-professional women’s tackle football team for a season. That 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 an ACE Eddie, a Cinema Eye, and 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 works that push 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.