Sweetshop has signed International
Emmy-winning director Edward Berger for representation globally. Berger
is now available for commercial and long-form projects in Australia.
Berger's Patrick Melrose
series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jennifer Jason Leigh, picked
up five Emmy nominations, including Best Director and Best Limited
Series. He also directed the two-hour series premiere of this year's AMC
series The Terror. Set in 1848 to chronicle a Royal Naval
expedition to the treacherous Northwest Passage, the series was an
incredible technical undertaking.
Past credits include landmark series Deutschland '83,
which aired to rave reviews on Channel 4 and gained international
success, winning an International Emmy for Best Drama; and the feature
film Jack, premiered in competition at the Berlin International
Film Festival, won Best Director and Best Picture at the German
Director's Guild Awards, as well as the German Academy Award in Silver
for Best Picture.
He wrote and directed his first feature Gomez in 1997 and in
2012 he won the prestigious German Grimme Award for his film A Good
Summer. Born 1970 in Germany, Berger graduated in directing from NYU's
Tisch School of the Arts in 1994.
At the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival Edward was named one of 'Ten Europeans to Watch' by Variety Magazine.
Berger recently wrapped his next feature film entitled All My Loving, which he wrote and directed and which aims for a Spring 2019 release. He will also direct the psychological thriller Rio starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch later in 2019.
Commercially,
Berger is responsible for the satirical 'Die Limo' campaign for
Granini, starring German TV personalities Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas
Heufer-Umlauf.
Says Edward Pontifex, managing director and
executive producer of Sweetshop Australia: "Edward is a very exciting
signing for us in Australia and he's the kind of director that we think
agencies and clients will be very keen to work with. He's worked with
some incredible talent, including some of the best character actors in
cinema and TV. His skills make him immediately relevant for commercials
and a truly exciting proposition."
Says
Berger: "As I love to dive into different aspects of filmmaking on every
new project I embark on, I am hugely excited to broaden my mind with
commercial work and I'm humbled by the endless possibilities Sweetshop's
global network will offer me."
Watch Edward's recent work
here.