TOBY PERL FREILICH

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER

         Toby Perl Freilich co-produced and co-directed MOYNIHAN, released theatrically in 2018, and slated for a broadcast premiere on PBS’ American Masters series in 2024.

         An L.A. Times Critic’s Pick which acclaimed it as “a sterling portrait of a singular American statesman, MOYNIHAN, produced with major support from the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, is a film biography of the late NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan through an exploration of his ideas. 

         Freilich wrote, directed, and produced INVENTING OUR LIFE: The Kibbutz Experiment, released theatrically in 2012. Variety called it "poignant… and thought-provoking.” It was hailed by The N.Y. Times as “fascinating,” and “excellent” by NPR, which remarked that “Freilich comes to her subject with a generous curiosity and a gift for digging beneath the usual debates.”

         Freilich co-produced and wrote the documentary film, SECRET LIVES: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers, selected by Andrew Sarris as one of the ten best non-fiction films of 2003, featured on HBO/Cinemax, and winner of numerous festival awards.

         For SECRET LIVES, Freilich was nominated for a news and documentary Emmy in the category of Outstanding Achievement in a Craft: Writing, and Secret Lives was nominated in the category of Outstanding Historical Programming. 

         Freilich was also co-producer of the Emmy-nominated RESISTANCE: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans, an independent documentary that was broadcast nationally on PBS.  

         Leading up to her work as an independent filmmaker, Freilich was a producer for the Garth Group, Inc., an internationally known media consulting firm specializing in political, corporate, and public interest campaigns.

         Freilich is a contributing writer to the magazines, Tablet, Sh’ma, the Jewish Review of Books and the Forward, where she was awarded a 2007 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism.

She is currently producing and directing a film about radical ecofeminist and NYC Department of Sanitation artist-in-residence Mierle Laderman Ukeles called I MAKE MAINTENANCE ART.