Joe Berlinger

Two-time Emmy and Peabody winner Joe Berlinger has been a leading voice in nonfiction film and television for two decades. Films include the landmark documentaries BROTHER’S KEEPER, PARADISE LOST: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS, and METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER, a film that re-defined the rockumentary genre. CRUDE, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won 22 human rights, environmental and film festival awards, recently triggered a high-profile First Amendment battle with oil-giant Chevron.

Berlinger has created many hours of television, including the Emmy-winning 10 DAYS THAT UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGED AMERICA and the Emmy-nominated GRAY MATTER. He has directed and produced five seasons of the critically acclaimed Sundance Channel series ICONOCLASTS and directed/executive-produced the first season of MASTERCLASS, a new series for the Oprah Winfrey Network. His numerous HBO productions include ADDICTION, JUDGEMENT DAY and VIRTUAL CORPSE, and he has created series for VH1 and Court TV. His series THE WRONG MAN helped lead to the exoneration of Marty Tankleff, falsely imprisoned for 17 years for the killing of his parents.

Berlinger is currently in production on the third installment of the Emmy-winning PARADISE LOST series for HBO, which spawned a worldwide movement to free "The West Memphis Three" from wrongful murder convictions. The director recently began production on a film exploring horror novelist and artist Clive Barker and is prepping to shoot in South Africa for a documentary about the 25th Anniversary of Paul Simon's landmark Graceland album. Berlinger wrote the St. Martin's book Metallica: The Monster Lives.