Jill Freidberg is a Seattle-based filmmaker, editor, and community radio producer. She has been producing and directing documentaries for over twelve years.

Her three feature-length documentaries, This is What Democracy Looks Like, Granito de Arena, and Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad, have won numerous festival awards, screened in over 50 countries, been translated into 8 languages, and aired nationally on public television in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and South America.

Other feature-length documentaries that Freidberg has edited include: Sweet Crude, Lady Be Good: Instrumental Women in Jazz, and Fishermans Terminal. She produces, directs, and edits for the Seattle Channel’s Emmy award-winning series, Community Stories, and has worked on popular PBS series, including Bill Nye the Science Guy, Life Beyond Earth, and The Meaning of Food.

Freidberg has been producing community radio for over ten years. She hosts the weekly Latin music program, Sabor, on KBCS 91.3 FM, and produces public affairs radio for KBCS, Free Speech Radio News, and the National Radio Project. She has been featured on Democracy Now and on numerous Pacifica and NPR affiliates, including WBEZ, WBAI, KUOW, KBOO, KPFA, WORT, and KPFK.

As an educator, Freidberg mentors teenage girls in film and video production with the Seattle-based organization Reel Grrls. She's a part-time instructor in the Seattle Central Community College Film and Video program, and taught documentary film production at the 2010 School for Authentic Journalism, in Mexico.

Freidberg received a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon and a Certificate of Excellence in Film Production from the Vancouver Film School, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.