Nir Ber­ger

Israel

Nir Ber­ger is a screen­writer and dir­ect­or from Israel, gradu­ate of TAU film school. In the last 5 years he has cre­ated, writ­ten and dir­ec­ted TV series, web series and short films in vari­ous genres – from anim­ated com­edy, through sketch shows and all the way to live-action, seri­al­ized drama. Some of his recent work: cre­at­ing, co-writ­ing and dir­ect­ing the award-win­ning anim­ated web series Dead End for the Israeli Pub­lic Broad­cast­ing Cor­por­a­tion, which has reached nearly 2 mil­lion views in Israel (in a 7 mil­lion Hebrew-speak­ing pop­u­la­tion); cre­at­ing, co-writ­ing and dir­ect­ing the sci-fi com­edy series Big Noth­ing (Yes Kidz); co-cre­at­ing the com­edy web series Con­tacts, which has reached over 2 mil­lion views with only three epis­odes; writ­ing & dir­ect­ing the short film Touch, recently par­ti­cip­at­ing in Jer­u­s­alem Film Fest­iv­al; co-devel­op­ing a new dram­edy series for the IPBC; and writ­ing on staff for vari­ous oth­er TV shows, among them the suc­cess­ful sketch show Ha-Yehudim Ba’im and the fam­ily sit­com Tsafuf. For more details as well as view­ing links, vis­it www​.nirber​ger​.net.