Joe Berlinger
Producer

Joe Berlinger Net Worth

Joe Berlinger is an Academy Award and seven-time Emmy nominated and Peabody and Emmy-winning filmmaker who has been a leading voice in nonfiction film and television for two decades. His films, such as BROTHER'S KEEPER, the PARADISE LOST Trilogy, METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER, and CRUDE, have earned him multiple awards from the Directors Guild of America, the National Board of Review, and the Independent Spirit Awards. Five of his documentary features have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, earning three Grand Jury Prize nominations.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Producer, Director, Camera Department
Birth Day October 30, 1961
Birth Place  Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States
Age 62 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Scorpio
Occupation documentary film-maker
Years active 1989–present
Spouse(s) Loren Eiferman

💰 Net worth: $12 Million (2024)

Joe Berlinger, a highly accomplished and versatile figure in the American entertainment industry, is estimated to have a net worth of $12 million by 2024. Known for his exceptional talent and expertise as a producer, director, and camera department professional, Berlinger has made a significant impact on the film and television industry in the United States. With numerous successful projects under his belt, he has garnered both critical acclaim and commercial success throughout his career. As the years go by, Joe Berlinger's net worth continues to reflect his immense contributions and achievements in the entertainment world.

Biography/Timeline

1983

Berlinger was born to a Jewish family and graduated from Colgate University in 1983.

1992

The first film Berlinger directed was the documentary Brother's Keeper (1992), which tells the story of Delbart Ward, an elderly man in Munnsville, New York, who was charged with second-degree murder following the death of his brother william. Film critic Roger Ebert called it "an extraordinary documentary about what happened next, as a town banded together to stop what folks saw as a miscarriage of justice."

1999

Berlinger has also worked on TV series such as Homicide: Life on the Street, in 1999 D.C., in 2000 and FanClub in 2001.

2000

Although Berlinger primarily is known for documentaries, he has made a number of films, such as Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000).

2004

In collaboration with Journalist Greg Milner, Berlinger has also written a book called Metallica: This Monster Lives (2004), which is about his journey in the documentary field through his time making Blair Witch 2 and up through directing and producing Some Kind of Monster (2004) with Metallica, the metal band.

2009

Chevron Corporation subpoenaed the outtakes from Berlinger's 2009 film Crude. Berlinger fought the request, citing reporters' privilege, but in 2010 a federal judge ordered Berlinger to turn over more than 600 hours of footage created during the film's production. Berlinger appealed, but in 2011 the US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court ruling against Berlinger, though with a slight reduction in the total hours of footage required.

2011

After a 2010 decision by the Arkansas Supreme Court regarding newly produced DNA evidence, attorneys for the West Memphis Three negotiated with prosecutors an Alford plea allowing them to assert their innocence while acknowledging enough evidence to convict them; the result, on August 19, 2011, was acceptance of the pleas by Judge David Laser, and his reduction of sentence of the three to time served, and their release with 10-year suspended sentences (after 18 years, 78 days in prison).

2012

Berlinger is best known for the film series Paradise Lost, which documents the murder trial and the subsequent legal battles of three Arkansas teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr., wrongfully convicted of murder. The court convicted the youths (known as the West Memphis Three) of murdering three eight-year-old boys as part of a "ritual killing," although no physical evidence linked the three young men to the crime. Paradise Lost documents the 20-year ordeal of these three young men from arrest to conviction, through years of unsuccessful legal efforts, to a final successful appeal that resulted in their release in the summer of 2012.

2014

As of February 2014, Berlinger was committed to the production of The System, an 8-part series on the American Criminal justice system, for Al Jazeera America.

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