Alexander Berger is a filmmaker with roots in Philly, Tucson, and Minnesota. Coming from a loving family filled with divorces, he's accustomed to a variety of conflict and irony which he pumps into his work along with themes of alienation, culture clashes, and personal transformations.
Inspired by our increasingly intimate and complicated relationship with our devices, Alex recently produced (and wrote, directed, shot, edited, and starred in) his first feature: MAN VS PHONE, a technological satire about a guy who has to outsmart his smart phone to escape his garage apartment. MAN VS PHONE won Best Writer for a Feature Film at the 2024 North Idaho Film Festival and is now available to watch on YouTube or ad-free on RELAY: https://pickrelay.com/t/fayk-wdr4/man-vs-phone
Before that, he co-wrote, with Alison McKenzie, Episode 607 of the Oprah Winfrey Network original series QUEEN SUGAR (created by Ava DuVernay) where he also served as the Script Coordinator. Previously, he was the Script Coordinator on Showtime’s original series RAY DONOVAN. This work has earned him Associate Membership in the Writers Guild of America and Membership in IATSE Local 871.
His feature screenplays, original pilots, and spec TV scripts have won many awards including:
• Fresh Voices Screenplay Competition – WINNER
• The Writers Assistants Network’s Writing Fellowship - WINNER
• Industry Insider Screenwriting Contest (Simon Kinberg/BenderSpink) – 2nd place
• Cannes Screenplay Contest – Finalist
• Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition – Finalist
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting – Semifinalist
• Warner Bros. Television Writers' Workshop – Quarterfinalist
• Sundance Episodic Story Lab - 2nd rounder
• Austin Film Festival - 2nd rounder
However, before focusing on writing, he attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied all aspects of Film/TV. Soon after, he edited a short documentary, CURTIS, which won honorable mention at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. CURTIS can also be viewed here: youtube.com/@alexanderbergermovies
In high school, he traveled to inner Mongolia with a crew from China Central Television, making short segments which were broadcast nationwide in China, and learning how to work in an unfamiliar place with folks who may at first seem foreign.
Around the same time, he also volunteered in the A/V department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, because his first love is fine art, a love that started with drawing, then morphed into filmmaking.
Alex is now happily married and enjoys endurance sports such as running, biking, swimming, and raising two kids.
