Rachel Liebling is an award-winning writer-director with a passion for true stories and real-life subjects. Her TV pilot Deep East Texas was a finalist in the Emerging Screenwriters 2020 Genre Screenplay Competition. Her pilot script Transit of Venus won an ISA fellowship to Stowe Story Labs. Her music feature, High Lonesome - The Story of Bluegrass Music, lauded as "Enthralling" by The New York Times, screened in Tribeca Films 2013 touring series "American Music: From Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway," alongside Martin Scorsese's Blues and Ken Burns’ Jazz. Liebling received a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art, and an MFA from the Columbia University Graduate Film Program where she studied screenwriting with Chris Kazan and directing with Milos Forman.