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Russell Friedenberg has worked as a screenwriter, actor, producer and director. Russell has attended the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, Tribeca All Access, the Sundance Producer’s Lab and is a fellow at the Writer's Guild Screenwriter's Lab. Russell's writing and producing credits include TRUDELL, which premiered at Sundance in 2005 and played Tribeca, Munich, SilverDocs, Full Frame, Seattle International and others. Russell recently completed writing and producing OUT OF THE BLUE: A FILM ABOUT LIFE AND FOOTBALL for ESPN. He is the writer and producer on FAMILY; FIRST CIRCLE a feature documentary about the foster care system in America. His feature film credits as a writer include: AMERICAN MONSTER, THE COLD, POT LUCK, A THOUSAND GUNS, THE CROSSING, and most recently wrote and directed IBID, which debuted at South By Southwest Film Festival and Munich International Film Festival. On the stage, Russell started theater companies in both New York (The New York Performance Alliance) and Los Angeles (Blue Sphere Alliance). Russell currently resides in Boise, Idaho where he is a Co-founder of visual arts collective; The Muse Building, is Executive Producer of Iron Circle and Appaloosa Pictures, teaches film studies at Boise State University and is raising three very gregarious children.