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Amy J. Berg, born October 13, 1970, is an American film maker best known for her Academy Award-nominated documentary Deliver Us from Evil. Deliver Us from Evil is about sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church, focusing on Oliver O'Grady, who abused many children in California between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Berg has also directed a 10-minute-long documentary film Polarized for Al Gore's Live Earth Pledge. Her most recent film, West of Memphis, produced by Peter Jackson and Damien Echols, documents the story of the West Memphis Three, who were convicted as teenagers of the 1993 murder of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The film has received critical acclaim and won numerous awards at film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered in January 2012, and the Toronto International Film Festival.
Born to an American Jewish family, Berg grew up in San Fernando Valley and lives currently in Santa Monica, California.
Berg is currently in pre-production for Every Secret Thing, a narrative feature film produced by Frances McDormand and Anthony Bregman, and starring Diane Lane and Elizabeth Banks.
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