Lionel Friedberg is a documentary film director, producer and writer who has written or produced films for, among others, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, PBS, the History Channel and National Geographic.
He has 18 credits as Director of Photography on feature motion pictures, and has worked all over the world on both dramatic and nonfiction productions.
He began his career working in the television industry in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1961.
Co-written with Scotty Bowers • Forever in my Veins: How Film Led Me to the Mysterious World of the African Shaman (O-Books.
John Hunt) (2020) • The Flying Springbok: A History of South African Airways Since Its Inception to the Post-Apartheid Era (Chronos Books.