**FREE** Q&Awards: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR

A seemingly minor neighbourhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida's "stand your ground" laws.

Geeta Gandbhir - Director Geeta Gandbhir is an award winning filmmaker. She embarked on her career in narrative film under the guidance of Spike Lee and Sam Pollard. After working for eleven years in scripted film, collaborating with renowned figures such as the Coen Brothers, Robert Altman, and others, she transitioned into documentary filmmaking. She is currently directing a series for Netflix with Spike Lee and Samantha Knowles which is a retrospective on New Orleans post Katrina.

As a Director, recent credits include the feature documentary The Perfect Neighbor which won the Sundance 2025 US Documentary Competition Directing Award, shorts Reclaimed for Sesame Workshop, The Devil is Busy for HBO, the Oscar Shortlisted film How We Get Free for HBO, the series Born in Synanon for Paramount, the series Eyes on the Prize for HBO, the feature doc Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, which was nominated for the 2022 Critics Choice Award, won a 2023 SIMA Award, and won a 2023 Emmy Award. She directed and show ran the series Black and Missing for HBO which won a 2022 NAACP Award for Best Directing, a 2022 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series, a 2022 ATAS Honors Award, and a Cinema Eye Honors for Best Series. She directed the film Apart, with Rudy Valdez, for HBOMax, which was nominated for an NAACP Award and won a 2022 Emmy Award. Her short film from 2020, Call Center Blues, with Topic Studios was shortlisted for the 2021 Academy Awards. She directed an episode The Asian Americans for PBS, which won the 2021 Peabody Award. Additional directing credits include the six-part series Why We Hate for Discovery, and I Am Evidence for HBO which won a 2019 Emmy, DuPont Award, and ATAS Award. Her film Armed with Faith for PBS also won a 2019 News and Documentary Emmy, an episode of the Netflix series The Rapture, focusing on rap artist Rapsody, Prison Dogs, which she co-directed with Perri Peltz, and A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers, for PBS. She also played a co-director and co-producer role in the A Conversation on Raceseries in collaboration with The New York Times Op-Docs. This series earned recognition, including an Online Journalism Award for Online Commentary, an AFI Documentary Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short, and a MacArthur Grant. She also co-produced the HBO film The Sentence, directed by Rudy Valdez, which received a 2019 Primetime Emmy. In her role as an Editor, her films have garnered two Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, and one Academy Award.

As Executive Producer, she just finished the series Harlem Ice for Disney+, and the feature films Family Tree, Black Table, and New Wave which are doing the festival circuit.

As Editor, her films have won 2 Emmys, 3 Peabodys and an Academy Award.

Viridiana Lieberman - Viridiana Lieberman is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She most recently edited The Perfect Neighbor which world premiered at Sundance in 2025 and won the U.S. Documentary directing award. She’s edited many features and series, most notably the Emmy-award winning films The Sentence, I Am Evidence, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power and Through Our Eyes: Apart and the Oscar shortlisted Call Center Blues. An avid women’s sports fan, her directorial debut, Born To Play premiered on ESPN and ABC in 2020. Following a semi-professional women’s tackle football team for a season, the 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 wants to be a part of creating specific work that pushes 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.