---
name: "Amy J. Berg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/amy-j-berg"
fi1m_id: "amy-j-berg"
imdb_id: "nm1332844"
tmdb_id: 74060
wikidata_id: "Q3740804"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "13 October 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-01T22:19:41.396082+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Amy J. Berg

## Identity

Amy J. Berg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/amy-j-berg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** amy-j-berg
- **IMDb ID:** nm1332844
- **TMDB ID:** 74060
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3740804
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_J._Berg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3740804, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1332844/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74060

Producer and director. Born 13 October 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 13 October 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Amy Berg
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_J._Berg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3740804, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1332844/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74060

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*West of Memphis*](https://film.one/film/west-of-memphis.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Amy J. Berg is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. She was born on 13 October 1970 in Los Angeles, California.

Berg is best known for her documentaries *Deliver Us from Evil* (2006), about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, and *West of Memphis* (2012), which she also wrote and which examines the West Memphis Three case. The former received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. She has also directed *Janis: Little Girl Blue* (2015), *Prophet's Prey* (2015) and *An Open Secret* (2014).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *West of Memphis* (2012), Fi1m 77, Writer, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/west-of-memphis.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Wilderness* (2025), Producer
- *The Case Against Adnan Syed (Special Episode)* (2025), Director, Executive Producer
- *It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley* (2025), Director, Producer
- *Jeff Buckley: Live at The Middle East* (2025), Director
- *Phoenix Rising* (2022), series, Producer, Director
- *We Are: The Brooklyn Saints* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *The Case Against Adnan Syed* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director
- *This Is Personal* (2019), Director
- *Dogs* (2018), series, Screenplay, Creator
- *Janis: Little Girl Blue* (2015), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Prophet's Prey* (2015), Producer, Director, Writer
- *An Open Secret* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Every Secret Thing* (2014), Director
- *West of Memphis* (2012), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/west-of-memphis.md)
- *Bhutto* (2010), Producer
- *Deliver Us from Evil* (2006), Director, Producer, Writer
- *American Race*, Director
- *From Art to Avians*, Co-Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2007: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *Deliver Us from Evil*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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