Joseph "Joe" Berlinger was born October 30, 1961 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.He is an Emmy winning and Academy Award nominated filmmaker and producer. A pioneer in the genre of True Crime documentaries, Berlinger draws attention to social justice issues in the US and abroad in his films such as The Paradise Lost Trilogy, Crude, Whitey: The United States of America V. James J. Bulger and Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial and Depiction.Berlinger made his narrative feature debut with Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000). Berlinger's film Crude (2009) focused on the lawsuit by Ecuadorean plaintiffs against Chevron Corporation, for its alleged responsibility for continuing sites of pollution in that country. Under African Skies (2012), follows Paul Simon as he returns to South Africa for a reunion concert, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his landmark album Graceland which featured many iconic South African Musicians. In 2014 Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger, a documentary about the infamous Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger was released. Berlinger traces Whitey's trail of terror as well as the FBI's role in both enabling him and taking him down. Berlinger captured Tony Robbins' exclusive and notoriously private Date With Destiny seminar in his 2016 film Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru. Berlinger chronicles the six-day seminar and the personal evolutions and breakthroughs of participants, Robbins and even Berlinger himself. In 2017 Berlinger released Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction, an examination of the Armenian Genocide through both seated interviews with experts and behind-the-scenes footage of Terry George's historical drama The Promise (2016). In the winter of 2018 Berlinger re-entered the world of narrative film and directed the forthcoming Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which chronicles the life of serial killer Ted Bundy's longtime girlfriend Liz Kloepfer. Starring Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Jim Parsons, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Haley Joel Osment and Angela Sarafyan, the film is set to be released in the fall of 2018.

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