Don Bernier | Principal

As a producer/director, Don Bernier's work has screened at Slamdance, Los Angeles Film Festival, Cinequest, Independent Film Festival of Boston and numerous other venues across the country. His 2005 documentary feature, In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian, was nominated for an IFP-Gotham Award and won a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival. Currently, he is developing a new television mini-series about urban wildlife conflict, entitled The Concrete Jungle.

As an editor, Bernier has worked on such television documentaries as Reporting America at War, American Experience: RFK and Marie Antoinette. He has edited several programs for David Grubin Productions in New York, including episodes of the PBS series, The Mysterious Human Heart and The Jewish Americans. Most recently, Bernier cut an historical DVD extra for the popular HBO Deadwood series, entitled The Real Deadwood: Out of the Ashes.

Bernier received a BFA at Kansas City Art Institute before going on to earn a graduate degree in media study at SUNY-Buffalo. Currently, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, photographer Tina Erickson.

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