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August 2009
Joe Berlinger is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, photographer and cinematographer. Berlinger and frequent collaborator Bruce Sinofsky have received international acclaim for their feature documentaries, which include Brother’s Keeper. Named 1992’s “Best Documentary” by the Directors Guild of America, the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review, the film also won Best Documentary at Sundance Film Festival and appeared on the "10 Best Films of the Year" lists of more than fifty major critics. Brother’s Keeper became one of the most successful self-distributed documentaries of all time, helping usher in a new era of independent documentary filmmaking. Other feature documentaries include Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, winner of a Primetime Emmy, a Peabody and the National Board of Review’s “Best Documentary” Award, Revelations: Paradise Lost 2, and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, which become an instant classic in the “rock doc” genre.
Berlinger has directed numerous television documentaries, including the Emmy-nominated Gray Matter, which chronicled his quest to located former Nazi doctor Heinrich Gross, and Where It’s At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union, an ABC primetime special. Fiction television directorial credits include the series Homicide, and he directed and co-wrote the feature film Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. He is co-executive producer and director of the acclaimed series Iconoclasts, now in its fourth season on the Sundance Channel. In 2006, he won an “Outstanding Nonfiction Series” Emmy as co-executive producer of The History Channel’s 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, for which he also directed an episode about the assassination of President William McKinley and the rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Berlinger’s articles and photographs have appeared in The New York Times, ArtForum, Film Comment, Aperture, and many other publications. A book, Metallica: This Monster Lives, The Inside Story of Some Kind of Monster, was published in 2004.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Audience
at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival
- Photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI |
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