---
name: "Kevin Berlandi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kevin-berlandi"
fi1m_id: "kevin-berlandi"
imdb_id: "nm1739200"
tmdb_id: 1815458
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T13:53:40.293681+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."
---

# Kevin Berlandi

## Identity

Kevin Berlandi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kevin-berlandi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kevin-berlandi
- **IMDb ID:** nm1739200
- **TMDB ID:** 1815458
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739200/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1815458

Director. Born in South Korea.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2005–2013
- **Also known as:** Kevin J. Berlandi, Kevin Joseph Berlandi
- **Frequently works with:** [Bethany Rooney](https://film.one/person/bethany-rooney.md), [Guy Ferland](https://film.one/person/guy-ferland.md), [John Terlesky](https://film.one/person/john-terlesky.md), [Karen Gaviola](https://film.one/person/karen-gaviola.md), [Michael W. Watkins](https://film.one/person/michael-w-watkins.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 60 (1), 2010s 63 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739200/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1815458

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Blacklist*](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md) (63)
- **Apple TV:** [*Criminal Minds*](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md) (60)

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

## Biography

Kevin Berlandi is an American television director. He began his career as a production assistant and later worked as an assistant director on feature films including the *Transformers* series (2009–2011) and *Pirates of the Caribbean* films.

Berlandi has directed episodes of numerous television series, including three episodes of *Bull* (2018–2021), one episode of *Criminal Minds* (2020), one episode of *The Blacklist* (2023), episodes of *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2022–2023), *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* (2022), *Walker* (2023), *Partner Track* (2022), *Found* (2024) and *Rescue: HI-Surf* (2024). He has also directed commercials and the 2016 short film *Hana Grows a Tail*.

A Korean-American raised outside Boston, Berlandi studied marketing and advertising at Emerson College. He has participated in Directors Guild of America initiatives including the Director Development Initiative and Sony’s Television 2016 Diverse Director’s Fellowship.

*Sources: imdb.com, lbbonline.com, shootonline.com, criminalminds.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Blacklist* (2013), Fi1m 63, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), Fi1m 60, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Rescue: HI-Surf* (2024), series, Director
- *Found* (2023), series, Director
- *Partner Track* (2022), series, Director
- *NCIS: Hawaiʻi* (2021), series, Director
- *Walker* (2021), series, Director
- *Bull* (2016), series, Director
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)
- *Transformers: Dark of the Moon* (2011), Additional Second Assistant Director
- *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, Director
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)
- *The Island* (2005), Production Assistant
- *xXx: State of the Union* (2005), Set Production Assistant

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