Alex Rollins Berg

Alex Rollins Berg is an award-winning writer and director based in New York City. The son of two journalists, Alex is drawn to contemporary true stories that explore uncomfortable truths in order to humanize, not moralize. Alex received the Blacklist and Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Fellowship for social commentary. His feature screenplay, i, placed in the top 50 of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and was a winning finalist in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. His newest short film, Hold Up, won the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the 2022 Romford Film Festival in London. Alex is a director in residence at NYU, where he has written and directed 24 short films since January 2022 in partnership with the Tisch conservatory Stonestreet. As a commercial director, he has made spots for some of the world's top brands, including Nokia, Smirnoff, Procter & Gamble and McDonald's. His previous short, Ruth (2020), which features a stunning final performance by Lynn Cohen (Munich, The Hunger Games), screened at the New Renaissance Film Festival in London, where it won a Best of Fest award and was nominated for Best International Short. Alex started his film career annotating the script for the Academy Award-winning film Capote. He has since worked as a storyboard artist, title card designer, cinematographer, editor and agency producer. An enthusiastic explorer, he shot helicopter search-and-rescue missions with the Coast Guard in Alaska, and is currently developing projects in Brazil and Nepal. In 2019, he co-produced an ambitious feature film, I'm An Electric Lampshade, shot in Mexico and the Philippines, which KQED San Francisco called "one of the more jaw-dropping debuts you'll ever see" and On Magazine named "easily one of the best documentaries of the year." It is currently on the festival circuit, where it has so far received eleven awards. Alex is represented by Greenberg Traurig and managed by the Muraviov Company.