Biography

Jonathan Berman is an American film producer, director, screenwriter, and academic. He is best known for his documentary work as producer and film director of The Shvitz (1993), My Friend Paul (1999), Commune (2005), and Calling All Earthlings (2018). His non-fiction feature films explore subculture and identity, depicting how alternative people, groups and ideas are represented in media. Berman currently serves as a professor at California State University San Marcos. Jonathan Berman was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Merrick, New York. His father, Herb Berman was a veteran of World War II and a community newspapers publisher in Brooklyn. Berman graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a B.A. degree and received an M.F.A. from Bard College.