Background
Born to a Jewish family, Berg grew up in the San Fernando Valley and lives in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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Career
Prior to Deliver Us From Evil, Berg produced documentary segments for Cable News Network Investigations and the KCBS news program "30 Minutes of Special Assignment". Before that, Berg researched and developed stories for Silver Creek Entertainment. Many aired on Good Morning America, 20/20, and Extra.
In addition, she has written numerous articles for the National Organization for Women, The Jewish Journal and a number of monthly and weekly periodicals in America and France.
Berg has directed the 10-minute-long documentary film Polarized (2007) for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore"s Live Earth Pledge. She also produced Bhutto, a documentary feature that played at Sundance 2010.
, produced by Peter Jackson and Damien Echols, documents the story of the West Memphis Three, who were convicted as teenagers of the 1993 murder of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. As of April 2014, Berg was in pre-production for Every Secret Thing, a narrative feature film produced by Frances McDormand and Anthony Bregman, and starring Diane Lane and Elizabeth Banks.
Also in April 2014, Variety confirmed that Berg had spent the past two years working on a documentary about sex abuse in Hollywood entitled An Open Secret.
In 2014 Content Film boarded Berg"s new documentary about Janis Joplin and was looking to introduce the film to buyers at Cannes. On November 24, 2014 Berg and Matthew Cooke launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds towards creating American Race, a documentary addressing "the black male crisis" in the United States. Prophet"s Prey, a documentary directed by Berg which explores the life of Warren Jeffs, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Berg adapted the film from Sam Brower"s book Prophet"s Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation Into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints.
Achievements
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Her work at KCBS earned her Emmy Awards in 2003 and 2004. The film has received critical acclaim and won numerous awards at film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered in January 2012, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Berg is the founder of Disarming Films, a film and documentary production company.
