Amy J. Berg
Amy J. Berg
Amy J. Bergis an American film maker known for her award winning documentaries. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-nominated documentary Deliver Us from Evil, about sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth13 October 1970
CountryUnited States of America
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Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
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Our daily habits of driving, drilling, buying and supporting all of the economic benefits a free economy demands has cost us dearly, but none more so than for the people of Shishmaref.
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I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives.
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The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.