Joel Berke

J. Nathaniel Berke is a Hollywood based producer and screenwriter for film and television. He has written screenplays for actors Sammo Hung (television's Martial Law) and Hiep Thi Li (Oliver Stone's Heaven and 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 US/Hollywood co-productions. 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 (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 as well is British rock star and founder of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett. 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. He graduated from the University of Central Florida's Creative Writing Department and Full Sail: School of Film, Art, Design, Music & Media Production. He has also studied writing and directing at the American Film Institute.