Russell Friedenberg

Russell Friedenberg was born on Feb 10, 1968 in USA. Russell Friedenberg's big-screen debut came with Angels! directed by Rico Martinez in 2000, strarring Squinty.

RUSSELL FRIEDENBERG has written and directed three feature films including AMONG RAVENS, an audience-pleaser starring Amy Smart, Will McCormack and Joshua Leonard; IBID, which debuted at (SXSW) South By Southwest and Munich International where it was nominated for the prestigious Cinevision Award; and WIND WALKERS a genre bender starring Zane Holtz and Glen Powell purchased by Fox.Friedenberg's writing and producing credits include award-winning documentary TRUDELL, which premiered at Sundance and played more than 100 festivals worldwide and was recently inducted into the National Archive. For ESPN he wrote and produced OUT OF THE BLUE: a Film about Life and Football. And for Showtime, FIRST CIRCLE, a feature documentary about the foster care system in America. He wrote and produced SAWTOOTH, starring Adam Beach and Udo Kier and was an Executive Producer on MAGIC VALLEY with Scott Glenn, Kyle Gallner and Matthew Gray Gubler and ASS BACKWARDS which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2017 with stars Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer and Vincent D'Onofrio.His TV show, SHASTA, was selected by the Sundance 2017 Episodic Lab and was purchased by AMAZON. Recently, Russell has co-written a television pilot, ENCOUNTERS for Amazon Studios, a sci-fi thriller set on a Nevada reservation.