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Jill Freidberg lives in Seattle, Washington, where she has been producing, directing, and editing documentary films, educational programming, advocacy media, and public affairs radio for 17 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's work includes 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. |
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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, won numerous festival awards and screened in over 50 countries.
Freidberg has worked in community radio for 15 years. Since 1998, she has hosted the weekly Latin music show "Sabor," for KBCS 91.3 FM in Seattle. She also produces public affairs programming for KBCS' weekly One World Report, and for national public affairs programs like Free Speech Radio News and the National Radio Project. She has reported from Mexico, for Democracy Now!, on multiple occasions, and has been interviewed on numerous NPR and community radio stations that include: WBEZ, KPFA, KPFK, KUOW, KBOO, and WORT.
Freidberg teaches part-time at the University of Washington Bothell Campus, in the Media and Communication Studies program. Prior to joining the University of Washington, she taught in the Film and Video Communications program at Seattle Central Community College, where she instructed second-year students in directing, production, story development, writing, and editing. She also mentors for Reel Grrls, teaching media production and media literacy to girls between the ages of 12 and 18. She was the documentary professor for the 2010 School of Authentic Journalism, a three-week bilingual intensive for young journalists from around the world. Freidberg has guest lectured, by invitation, at numerous colleges and universities including: University of Washington, University of California-Santa Barbara, Fordham, Rutgers, University of Texas-Austin, Evergreen State College, The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and University of British Columbia. Freidberg has also taught grassroots video production workshops to collectives and communities across southern Mexico.
Freidberg is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. She has translated several documentaries from Spanish to English, including A Little Bit of So Much Truth and Granito de Arena, and has subtitled numerous films and videos, including Sweet Crude, Sígueme Contando, and Where Are the Maya. She is a DSHS certified medical interpreter and a graduate of the intensive interpreter training "Bridging the Gap," through the Cross Cultural Health Care Program. Freidberg has interpreted and translated for organizations that include the Trinational Coalition for the Defense of Public Education, Centrum Arts Organization, and the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers of Oaxaca.
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).
This is What Democracy Looks Like, won numerous festival awards and screened in over 50 countries.
Freidberg has worked in community radio for 15 years. Since 1998, she has hosted the weekly Latin music show "Sabor," for KBCS 91.3 FM in Seattle. She also produces public affairs programming for KBCS' weekly One World Report, and for national public affairs programs like Free Speech Radio News and the National Radio Project. She has reported from Mexico, for Democracy Now!, on multiple occasions, and has been interviewed on numerous NPR and community radio stations that include: WBEZ, KPFA, KPFK, KUOW, KBOO, and WORT.
Freidberg teaches part-time at the University of Washington Bothell Campus, in the Media and Communication Studies program. Prior to joining the University of Washington, she taught in the Film and Video Communications program at Seattle Central Community College, where she instructed second-year students in directing, production, story development, writing, and editing. She also mentors for Reel Grrls, teaching media production and media literacy to girls between the ages of 12 and 18. She was the documentary professor for the 2010 School of Authentic Journalism, a three-week bilingual intensive for young journalists from around the world. Freidberg has guest lectured, by invitation, at numerous colleges and universities including: University of Washington, University of California-Santa Barbara, Fordham, Rutgers, University of Texas-Austin, Evergreen State College, The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and University of British Columbia. Freidberg has also taught grassroots video production workshops to collectives and communities across southern Mexico.
Freidberg is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. She has translated several documentaries from Spanish to English, including A Little Bit of So Much Truth and Granito de Arena, and has subtitled numerous films and videos, including Sweet Crude, Sígueme Contando, and Where Are the Maya. She is a DSHS certified medical interpreter and a graduate of the intensive interpreter training "Bridging the Gap," through the Cross Cultural Health Care Program. Freidberg has interpreted and translated for organizations that include the Trinational Coalition for the Defense of Public Education, Centrum Arts Organization, and the Coalition of Indigenous Teachers of Oaxaca.
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).
