featured projects
YOUSSOU N’DOUR
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love,’ is a music-infused cinematic journey about the power of one man’s voice to inspire change.
LAND RUSH
Director
Director
Screened in more than 70 countries, this hour-long documentary tells the story of an industrial sugar plantation being built in rural Mali.
On A Knife Edge
Co-Producer
Co-Producer
A young boy, growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation , balances being a leader of the Lakota Nation and a citizen of the US.
a normal life
Director
Director
A feature documentary that follows 7 young friends over 3 years after the war in Kosovo.
TRIBECA FESTIVAL WINNER 2003
TRIBECA FESTIVAL WINNER 2003
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Editor
Editor
The singer/songwriter’s first album for Nonesuch Records, produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys.
Miles Español
Director
Director
A groundbreaking collaboration between veterans of Miles Davis’s various bands and musicians from Spain, Morocco, and Latin America.
about
I fell in love with film as a projectionist at Princeton University and then studying cinema at NYU in the late ’90s. I got my start writing film and theatre reviews for Time Out and reading scripts for New York film companies. In 1999, as the war in Kosovo was ending, I boarded a plane to Macedonia and hitched a military ride to Pristina. 3 years later my co-director, Chai Vasarhelyi, and I finished “A Normal Life”, a feature documentary that won the Tribeca Festival at its premier outing.
I’ve traveled all over the world making documentary films and TV programs in the intervening decade; directing, producing, editing and shooting. Last year, I directed ‘Land Rush’ for the BBC Why Poverty? series, about land grabbing in Africa. It won a Peabody Award and was nominated for a Grierson. Other credits include PBS Wide Angle, MTV True Life and Vh1 Rock Docs.
I’m drawn to intriguing characters and compromising situations, to stories that don’t reinforce our assumptions but that challenge us to see the world anew.
I’ve traveled all over the world making documentary films and TV programs in the intervening decade; directing, producing, editing and shooting. Last year, I directed ‘Land Rush’ for the BBC Why Poverty? series, about land grabbing in Africa. It won a Peabody Award and was nominated for a Grierson. Other credits include PBS Wide Angle, MTV True Life and Vh1 Rock Docs.
I’m drawn to intriguing characters and compromising situations, to stories that don’t reinforce our assumptions but that challenge us to see the world anew.
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contact
Get in touch, I’d love to hear from you. Please feel free to contact me using any of the methods below. Alternatively use the contact form on the right and I’ll be in touch soon.
Email:
hugo@hugoberkeley.co.uk
Telephone:
+44 (0) 208 746 2936
Email:
hugo@hugoberkeley.co.uk
Telephone:
+44 (0) 208 746 2936