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.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Editor, director, cinematographer and producer
- 11 on MovieCove · 16 credits in all
What are Viridiana Lieberman's films like?
Across their 10 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 8
A split, not a type: Light 3 · Serious 1 · Dark 4
Grounded 8 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 3 · Charged 1 · Intense 4
Steady 4 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 6 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 7 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 4 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 3
Resolved 7 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet6
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous2
- Other1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Viridiana Lieberman's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on HBO Max (3).
- Curiosity Stream
Subscription and free streaming for Viridiana Lieberman's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
16 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
The Perfect Neighbor(2025)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
Carlos(2023)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Reopening Night(2021)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Breakaway (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Make Him Known (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all shows
Born to Play(2020)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Call Center Blues (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
The Sentence(2018)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Fattitude (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
I Am Evidence(2017)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
30 for 30(2009)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Career shape
A full career of 12 titles from 2009 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Carlos (2023)
Highest rated
I Am Evidence (2017)
Most popular right now
The Perfect Neighbor (2025)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for a Critics Choice Award in 2026, Best Editing.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Viridiana Lieberman's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 82nd percentile, the median of all 8; across their 8 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 82nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 11 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Loved with Detractors1
- Divisive2
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the pacing 52/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 58, detractors 30. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Viridiana Lieberman work with?
People who share at least 2 of Viridiana Lieberman's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Rudy Valdez shares the most, 5.
Directors
- Rudy ValdezShared titles: Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest (2025), Carlos (2023), Reopening Night (2021), We Are: The Brooklyn Saints (2021), The Sentence (2018)See all 5 shared titles with Rudy Valdez
- Geeta GandbhirShared titles: Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest (2025), The Perfect Neighbor (2025), Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022), The Sentence (2018), I Am Evidence (2017)See all 5 shared titles with Geeta Gandbhir
Composers
- Sam BisbeeShared titles: The Perfect Neighbor (2025), Born to Play (2020), The Sentence (2018)See all 3 shared titles with Sam Bisbee
- Jongnic BontempsShared titles: Reopening Night (2021), We Are: The Brooklyn Saints (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Jongnic Bontemps
Producers
- Sam PollardShared titles: The Perfect Neighbor (2025), Carlos (2023), Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022), We Are: The Brooklyn Saints (2021)See all 4 shared titles with Sam Pollard
- Jackie Kelman BisbeeShared titles: The Perfect Neighbor (2025), Born to Play (2020), The Sentence (2018)See all 3 shared titles with Jackie Kelman Bisbee
- Nancy AbrahamShared titles: Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest (2025), Reopening Night (2021), I Am Evidence (2017)See all 3 shared titles with Nancy Abraham
- Danielle MassieShared titles: The Perfect Neighbor (2025), Born to Play (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Danielle Massie
