Jill Freidberg is a Seattle-based filmmaker, editor, and community radio producer. She has been producing social justice documentaries for over ten 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.

Freidberg was a founding member of the Seattle Independent Media Center and the global independent media network, Indymedia.org. She helped coordinate the Indymedia coverage of the 1999 WTO protests and the resulting compilation of the week’s alternative news coverage, Showdown in Seattle.

As an editor, Freidberg has worked on Emmy-award winning series for public television. Her work on PBS series includes: Bill Nye the Science Guy, Life Beyond Earth, and The Meaning of Food. She is also an editor for the Seattle Channel’s Emmy award-winning series, Community Stories. Freidberg is currently editing the feature-length documentary, Sweet Crude, which will have its World Premiere at the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, where it has been nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

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 and Free Speech Radio News. She has been featured on Democracy Now and on numerous Pacifica and NPR affiliates, including WBEZ, WBAI, KUOW, KBOO, KPFA, WORT, and KPFK.

In Mexico, Freidberg collaborates with various independent media collectives and community radio stations, including Mal de Ojo TV, Indymedia Oaxaca, the Network of Indigenous Radio Stations of the Mexican Southeast, and Radio Plantón.

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.