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name: "Paul Mayeda Berges"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-mayeda-berges"
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imdb_id: "nm0074488"
tmdb_id: 6222
wikidata_id: "Q3634934"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "11 September 1968"
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average_as: "producer"
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updated: "2026-10-03T08:12:40.853924+00:00"
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# Paul Mayeda Berges

## Identity

Paul Mayeda Berges

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-mayeda-berges
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-mayeda-berges
- **IMDb ID:** nm0074488
- **TMDB ID:** 6222
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3634934
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mayeda_Berges, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3634934, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074488/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6222

Producer. Born 11 September 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 11 September 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mayeda_Berges, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3634934, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074488/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6222

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Bend It Like Beckham*](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md) (76)

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## Biography

Paul Mayeda Berges is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He was born on 11 September 1968 in California and studied film at the University of California, Santa Cruz, graduating in 1990. He began his career making documentaries about the Japanese American community.

Berges has frequently collaborated with his wife, the director Gurinder Chadha. Their joint credits include the screenplay for *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), on which he is also credited as a producer, as well as *What's Cooking?* (2000), *Bride & Prejudice* (2004) and *Blinded by the Light* (2019). He made his directorial debut with *The Mistress of Spices* (2005) and has contributed to other films including *Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging* (2008) and *Viceroy's House* (2017).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), Fi1m 76, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *Christmas Karma* (2025), Executive Producer, Lyricist
- *Homemade* (2020), series, Writer, Director of Photography
- *Blinded by the Light* (2019), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Beecham House* (2019), series, Writer, Creator
- *Viceroy's House* (2017), Writer, Producer
- *It's a Wonderful Afterlife* (2010), Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging* (2008), Screenplay
- *Paris Je T'aime* (2006), Writer
- *Quais de Seine* (2006), Writer
- *The Mistress of Spices* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Bride & Prejudice* (2004), Screenplay
- *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), Producer, Writer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md)
- *What's Cooking?* (2000), Writer, Associate Producer
- *En Ryo Identity* (1993), Director
- *Pashmina*, Writer
- *Untitled Bend It Like Beckham Sequel*, Writer
- *The Neverending Pillow Fort*, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges presenting Viceroy's House at the Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/5519699/gallery-fad6495a62ec.jpg) Screenwriter Paul Mayeda Berges presenting Viceroy's House at the Berlinale 2017 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/MJK32967_Paul_Mayeda_Berges_%28Viceroy%27s_House%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK32967_Paul_Mayeda_Berges_%28Viceroy%27s_House%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Paul Mayeda Berges](https://film.one/media/person/5519699/gallery-68d24af78570.jpg) Paul Mayeda Berges — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/MJK32948_Paul_Mayeda_Berges_%28Viceroy%27s_House%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK32948_Paul_Mayeda_Berges_%28Viceroy%27s_House%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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