Bio:

Pinecone Pictures is just me, Nicholas Berger. I was born in San Francisco and have lived in San Diego, New York and Berlin. As an undergraduate I attended Brown University, where I received a BA in philosophy. After graduating, I spent two years working on documentaries for PBS and the History Channel. I then attended Stanford University's Documentary Film program where I recently received an MFA.

Films:

I have always been attracted to documentary subjects that have such strong characters, visual coherence and metaphorical structures that they feel scripted. These subjects attract me because I am more interested in making morality tales than informational pieces. If a documentary feels like a fiction film we read it more like a fairy tale and less like a journalistic document, and the issues addressed become more universal in scope.

For more information on my films go here.