"If anyone is in Times Square in Nov. my Penn State lion shrine spot is playing every 2 minutes on the Ripley's Believe It or Not building."
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Kristian Berg
- State College, PA
- United States
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Kristian Berg posted a status"My short doc "Poustinia" makes front page of www.shortfilmcentral.com w/film fest win"
Kristian Berg posted a status"Kind of fun. This idea started 5 yrs ago when I instigated a 3D laser scan of the beloved Penn State Lion Shrine statue. http://j.mp/XDQZPI"
Kristian Berg posted a status"POUSTINIA is a masterly film. Gives deep appreciation for inspiration that moves an artistic soul. - Larkin McPhee, dir. http://j.mp/WZbR3G"
Kristian Berg posted a status"Head still buzzing from lunchtime phone call from Godfrey Reggio -dir of Koyaanisqatsi - having just seen Poustinia. "Its a beautiful film"."
Kristian Berg posted a status"Found out a few days ago my treatment for reality series SILENT PICTURE won Script Pipeline Great TV Show Idea Contest! http://j.mp/1rkyR90"
Kristian Berg posted a status"Next screening for POUSTINIA is at Arthur Bell Auditorium at Harwood Museum of Art Taos NM this Saturday, June 7th. Artist in attendance!"
Kristian Berg posted a status"My short doc POUSTINIA won the audience award at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Next up - the Duluth Superior FF!"
Kristian Berg posted a status"My short doc POUSTINIA screened at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival on Monday Apr 14 at St. Anthony Main Theatre #MSPIFF"
Kristian Berg posted a status"My short doc POUSTINIA is official selection of Taos Shortz Film Fest the "Sundance of short film festivals" screening March 23 #taosshortz"
Kristian Berg posted a status"My short doc POUSTINIA is official selection of Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. One of MovieMaker magazines "20 coolest film fests""
Kristian Berg posted a status"Tempo magazine from Taos features my short doc POUSTINIA - subject Gendron Jensen & Woodstock Film Fest win. http://tinyurl.com/m9qbe2g"
Kristian Berg posted a status"Poustinia - my film on artist Gendron Jensen - wins the Diane Seligman award for Best Short Documentary at the 14th Woodstock Film Festival!"
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Woodstock_Jurors
My documentary short POUSTINIA - about the artist Gendron Jensen - wins the Diane Seligman Award for Best Short Documentary at the 14th Woodstock Film Festival last weekend! Left to right: juror Leon Gast ("When We Were Kings"), juror Paul Rachman…
Kristian Berg posted a status"Tix to SHORT DOCS II at Woodstock Film Festival & "Poustinia" doc on artist Gendron Jensen screening Oct 4 & 5 http://tinyurl.com/ojcencg"
Kristian Berg posted a status"Indie Wire announces: Keanu Reeves and I both make our indie film directorial debuts at Woodstock Film Festival. http://tinyurl.com/krlu5ls"
Profile Information
- Workshop Year
- 2003
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Mass Communications
Saint Cloud State University
PBS Producer’s Academy WGBH Workshop 2003.
PBS Producers Academy, 2002 Sundance Film Festival. One of 20 independent and PBS producers awarded stipends to attend panels and screenings at Sundance.
Writing and Developing Television Documentaries, The Rockport International Film & Television Workshops, Rockport, Maine. 1997
see Bramble Films facebook link below for video samples
- Company or station:
- Penn State Public Television / Bramble Films
- Your url(s) including your website, facebook, linkedin or other profiles:
- www.facebook.com/bramblefilms
www.bramblefilms.com
- Genre(s) you work in:
- history, science, children's, arts
- Professional credits:
- producer, director, writer, editor, camera, executive producer, interactive media maker
- Best way to contact me:
- email - kristian@bramblefilms.com
cell phone 651-260-4166
Kristian's Bio
Kristian Berg creates, develops and produces television series and documentaries. For the PBS series History Detectives, Kristian led the west coast unit at Oregon Public Broadcasting and produced 12 stories over two seasons. For the Emmy winning PBS series Newton's Apple he produced over 50 stories and specials for nine seasons. Past documentaries include The Dakota Conflict (PBS), Dakota Exile (PBS), Greatest Trials: The Scottsboro Boys (Court TV) and The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann (Court TV). Additional storytelling for PBS series NOVA scienceNOW, ZOOM! and DragonflyTV. Kristian has also developed and produced science and math programming and interactive materials for the National Science Foundation and Annenberg Media. Awards include a Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); a Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Documentary; a CINE Golden Eagle; and multiple regional Emmy awards. Kristian is currently a senior producer at Penn State Public Television.
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Kristian Berg's Blog
Happy New Year! My 2014.
Posted on January 2, 2015 at 1:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Happy 2015! Looking back, last year was remarkable. Finally made Penn State lion shrine come to life in 3D photorealistic computer animation (w/FuseFX in Burbank) for a 30 second spot (I saw it play during SONS OF ANARCHY between Jack Daniels and Harley ads) - I entered and won the top prize in Script Pipeline's Great TV show idea contest with treatment for SILENT PICTURE reality/documentary series (my DINO DUELS animation series treatment was a finalist last year) - screened my short doc…
Continue "Poustinia" wins audience award at MSPIFF14
Posted on May 5, 2014 at 4:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
This is the rambling saga of how I finished my short documentary POUSTINIA on artist Gendron Jensen - "the bone man" - someone I've known since I was a kid growing up in Northern Minnesota - Gendron draws bones - exquisitely detailed realistic drawings. His medium is graphite on paper and, more recently, stone lithography. Its initial screening was June 2013 (at a retrospective exhibit in our home town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota). I first started shooting video with Gendron back in 1977…
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