In this episode of the No Film School Podcast, GG Hawkins and guests, director Geeta Gandbhir and editor Viridiana Lieberman, dive into the making of the breakout documentary The Perfect Neighbor, which uses police body‑cam, Ring‑cam, and dash‑cam footage to tell a harrowing story of a neighborhood dispute and a fatal shooting in Florida under the “stand your ground” law. The conversation focuses on how Lieberman navigated massive technical and emotional challenges, how Gandbhir sha...| No Film School
With Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor premiering on Netflix today, we’re reposting our interview with Gandbhir out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. — Editor Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor, which premiered in the US Documentary section of this year’s Sundance, is likely one of the first feature docs primarily composed of police body camera footage. Sifting through footage with editor Viridiana Liberman (The Sentence), Gandbhir builds out a suspenseful and heartbr...| Filmmaker Magazine
Netflix’s latest true-crime documentary, The Perfect Neighbor, isn’t an easy watch and maybe it shouldn’t be. Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir, the film unpacks the 2023 killing of Ajike “AJ” Owens, a 35-year-old Black mother of four, by her white neighbor, Susan Lorincz, in Ocala, Florida. The tragedy and the circumstances surrounding it have… The post Everyone Watching ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ on Netflix Is Furious And They Have Every Right to Be appeared firs...| Black Girl Nerds