Jonathan Silberberg
Jonathan Silberberg is an Emmy-nominated film and television producer and director. He has worked on documentaries, feature films, television, branded content, and commercials for companies including RadicalMedia, HBO, Showtime, Imagine Entertainment, Participant Media, Sundance Channel, A&E, Discovery as well as many brands and agencies. In addition to Executive Producing the Nat Geo 6-part epic miniseries MARS, in collaboration with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment and RadicalMedia, Silberberg has produced two Ron Howard helmed nonfiction projects: Showtime’s Jay Z concert film, Made in America and Nat Geo's Breakthrough. He also produced Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Oscar-nominated Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory for HBO, a follow-up to the Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. Other television work includes, Sundance Channel’s Iconoclasts and A&E’s The First 48. Silberberg began his career at the storied documentary company Maysles Films and later went on to work as a producer and showrunner. Jonathan is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America. He graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Cognitive Science and currently lives in Los Angeles after many years in New York City.
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