Joel Berke
J. Nathaniel Berke is a Hollywood-based screenwriter, producer, and director for film and television. He has written screenplays for actors Sammo Hung (television's Martial Law) and Hiep Thi Li (Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth). In 1999, he was hired by Silver Dream Productions to pen the adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's Pavilion of Women, one of the very first China/Hollywood co-productions.[1]
His directorial debut, An Unkindness of Ravens, premiered at the 2001 Manchester Film Festival and was purchased by Showtime and Universal Television U.K. His original screenplay was made into the award-winning 2012 feature film The Locked Door (2012) (starring Chinese actress Huang Shengyi).
He is an accomplished underwater cameraman whose footage has been seen in films produced by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Limulus Productions. He is currently producing and directing two documentary films: Waterman about freediver and writer Carlos Eyles and Piercing the Veil of Time: The Life and Art of Charles R. Knight. He has also written biopics on American writers Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck.
In 2015, Los Angeles-Beijing Studios, Inc./ Yisang Media purchased two of his screenplays: Super Hero and Olympus (written with legendary science fiction novelist Alan Dean Foster). Both projects are in pre-production.[2][not in citation given]
He graduated from the University of Central Florida's Creative Writing Department and Full Sail University: School of Film, Art, Design, Music & Media Production. He has also studied writing and directing at the American Film Institute. He has been a music production assistant on several major animated soundtracks.
From 1992 to 1997, Berke was a film department instructor at the Daytona Beach and Melbourne, Florida campuses of Phillips Junior Colleges.
Credits
- 2000 Pavilion of Women - screenwriter
- 2001 An Unkindness of Ravens - screenwriter, director, producer, editor
- 2003 Yellow Fever (commission for actress Hiep Thi Li)
- 2008 Waterman (documentary) - writer, director, producer, editor
- 2010 Piercing the Veil of time (Charles R. Knight documentary) - writer, director, producer, editor, camera
- 2012 The Locked Door (2012 film) (starring Huang Shengyi) - story, screenwriter
- 2015 Copycat Killers (TV series) - screenwriter
- 2015 The Goddess of Papercut (biopic of UNESCO Chinese Folk Artist Ku Shulan) - story
- 2016 Encounter With Tiber (TV series pilot adapted from the best-selling science fiction novel by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin)
- 2017 Delta Green (TV series pilot based on the award-winning tabletop role-playing game Delta Green by Arc Dream Publishing)
Soundtrack music production assistant
- 1994 The Lion King
- 2000 The Emperor's New Groove
- 2001 Monsters, Inc.
- 2001 Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- 2002 Lilo & Stitch
- 2002 Finding Nemo
- 2003 Brother Bear
- 2004 Home on the Range
- 2007 Treasure Planet[4]
Current projects in development or pre-production
- Olympus (written with Alan Dean Foster)
- Super Hero
- Where the Road Ends (Jack Kerouac biopic)
- Between the Tides (John Steinbeck/Ed Ricketts biopic)
- The Beat Generation (TV series that chronicles the lives of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg & William S. Burroughs)
References
External links
Joel Berke on IMDb
- https://www.linkedin.com/profile/preview?locale=en_US&trk=prof-0-sb-preview-primary-button
- https://www.amazon.com/Where-Road-Ends-Nathaniel-Berke-ebook/dp/B007HTV32Q?ie=UTF8&keywords=j.%20nathaniel%20berke&qid=1462852677&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
- https://www.youtube.com/user/jnberke
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