Jill
Freidberg lives in Seattle, where she has been producing, directing,
and editing documentary films,
educational programming, advocacy media, and public affairs radio for 15 years. Her work has garnered numerous festival awards;
received national broadcast in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America; and been translated into over 10 languages.
Freidberg received a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon (1990) and a Certificate of Excellence in
Film Production from the Vancouver Film School (1994). She is fully bilingual in Spanish and English.
Freidberg got her start in 1996, as assistant editor on the hugely successful PBS series: Bill Nye the Science Guy. Since then she has worked on six feature-length documentaries, three national PBS series, and countless documentary shorts.
Her editing credits include: the award-winning documentary Sweet Crude; the PBS series Meaning of Food;
and the Seattle Channel's Emmy-Award winning documentary series "Community Stories."
Between 2003 and 2007, Freidberg worked primarily in southern Mexico, producing, directing, and editing the two award-winning documentaries A Little Bit of So Much Truth and Granito de Arena. Those films, along with her third feature-length documentary, This is What Democracy Looks Like, have won numerous festival awards, screened in over 50 countries,
and been translated into over 10 languages.
Recently, she produced and directed "Starting Again: Stories of Refugee Youth," a 20-minute educational documentary commissioned by School's Out Washington to build advocacy for refugee youth in King County; and "In Life As It Is In the Ring,"
a short documentary about Cappy's Boxing Club, in Seattle's Central District.
educational programming, advocacy media, and public affairs radio for 15 years. Her work has garnered numerous festival awards;
received national broadcast in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America; and been translated into over 10 languages.
Freidberg received a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon (1990) and a Certificate of Excellence in
Film Production from the Vancouver Film School (1994). She is fully bilingual in Spanish and English.
Freidberg got her start in 1996, as assistant editor on the hugely successful PBS series: Bill Nye the Science Guy. Since then she has worked on six feature-length documentaries, three national PBS series, and countless documentary shorts.
Her editing credits include: the award-winning documentary Sweet Crude; the PBS series Meaning of Food;
and the Seattle Channel's Emmy-Award winning documentary series "Community Stories."
Between 2003 and 2007, Freidberg worked primarily in southern Mexico, producing, directing, and editing the two award-winning documentaries A Little Bit of So Much Truth and Granito de Arena. Those films, along with her third feature-length documentary, This is What Democracy Looks Like, have won numerous festival awards, screened in over 50 countries,
and been translated into over 10 languages.
Recently, she produced and directed "Starting Again: Stories of Refugee Youth," a 20-minute educational documentary commissioned by School's Out Washington to build advocacy for refugee youth in King County; and "In Life As It Is In the Ring,"
a short documentary about Cappy's Boxing Club, in Seattle's Central District.
