[8] Prior to that, Lieberman directed “They Call It Myanmar,”[9] an inside look at Burma and features Nobel Laureate Aung San Sang Suu Kyi.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Times cited it as one of the “top dozen documentaries of 2012.”[10] His newly released novel “The Boys of Truxton”[11] is set in Upstate New York and deals with a teenager convicted of a heinous crime.
The feature comedy "Green Lights", which he wrote and directed, is the story of a small town swept up into a frenzy by a location scout who is taken for a big film producer.
His documentary, “Faces in a Famine” provides a novelist’s eye view of the people who descended on the scene, everything from relief workers and the press to “disaster groupies.” The Christian Science Monitor cited the film as “A vivid, probing, disturbing survey...a unique study.” Lieberman has been awarded a series of Fulbright Lectureships.
The middle son of parents, Oscar and Gertrude Lieberman, who managed to escape Nazi Vienna in 1938, he grew up in Kew Gardens, Queens.
It was here he returned after 50 years to shoot his film “Last Stop Kew Gardens,” and was inspired to write the novel and the screenplay for “The Nazis, My Father & Me.”[13] Lieberman attended P.S.