Amy J. Berg is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on October 13, 1970 in Los Angeles, United States. In 2014 Content Film boarded Berg’s new documentary about Janis Joplin and was looking to introduce the film to buyers at Cannes. The film, called Janis: Little Girl Blue, follows Joplin during her performing years at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, Woodstock Festival in 1969 and Festival Express in 1970, and it also includes interviews with family, friends and rock star contemporaries.
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.
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.
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 US.
Berg has directed the 10-minute-long documentary film Polarized (2007) for Al Gore’s Live Earth Pledge. She also produced Bhutto, a documentary feature that played at Sundance 2010. West of Memphis (2012), 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. 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.
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.
