Todd Berger (born April 5, 1979) is an American film director,
screenwriter, actor, and novelist most prominently known for writing
and directing the feature films It's a Disaster, Cover Versions, The
Scenesters, and the documentary Don't Eat The Baby: Adventures at
post-Katrina Mardi Gras.Berger was born and raised in the Algiers
neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. As a child and teenager he
would make movies with friends using a VHS camera, and in 2015 used
some of that footage with newly shot material to make the sci-fi time
travel short film Teenage Wasteland, which won the Grand Jury Prize at
the 2015 No Budget Film Festival.He is a graduate of The University of
Texas at Austin, where he worked for the student television station
KVR-TV and wrote and directed the nationally syndicated comedy show
Campus Loop. In a class at the University of Texas at Austin
Department of Radioâ€"Televisionâ€"Film he wrote and the produced the
puppet short film Manifest Destiny, directed by classmate Dee Austin
Robertson, which later inspired them to create the idea for the film
The Happytime Murders.Berger's first feature film as writer/director
was the documentary Don't Eat The Baby: Adventures at post-Katrina
Mardi Gras, which played the closing night of the 2007 New Orleans
Film Festival. The film examined the city of New Orleans staging its
first Mardi Gras after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and
included interviews with Mardi Gras historians, activists, and
residents effected by the flood. The film's title refers to the
plastic baby hidden inside a King Cake.
screenwriter, actor, and novelist most prominently known for writing
and directing the feature films It's a Disaster, Cover Versions, The
Scenesters, and the documentary Don't Eat The Baby: Adventures at
post-Katrina Mardi Gras.Berger was born and raised in the Algiers
neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. As a child and teenager he
would make movies with friends using a VHS camera, and in 2015 used
some of that footage with newly shot material to make the sci-fi time
travel short film Teenage Wasteland, which won the Grand Jury Prize at
the 2015 No Budget Film Festival.He is a graduate of The University of
Texas at Austin, where he worked for the student television station
KVR-TV and wrote and directed the nationally syndicated comedy show
Campus Loop. In a class at the University of Texas at Austin
Department of Radioâ€"Televisionâ€"Film he wrote and the produced the
puppet short film Manifest Destiny, directed by classmate Dee Austin
Robertson, which later inspired them to create the idea for the film
The Happytime Murders.Berger's first feature film as writer/director
was the documentary Don't Eat The Baby: Adventures at post-Katrina
Mardi Gras, which played the closing night of the 2007 New Orleans
Film Festival. The film examined the city of New Orleans staging its
first Mardi Gras after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and
included interviews with Mardi Gras historians, activists, and
residents effected by the flood. The film's title refers to the
plastic baby hidden inside a King Cake.
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