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Greg Berger

Greg Berger is a Mexico based filmmaker, lecturer, and revolutionary tourist. He is the producer of several award-winning documentary films on grassroots social movements in Mexico and the Americas. His recent work includes a series of short experimental narratives exploring the complexities of U.S./Mexico relations. Greg also coordinates the ongoing "Dispatches From Rebel Mexico" video and lecture tour, which brings social justice documentary films from Latin America to universities and community centers across the United States, during which "virtual town meetings" are moderated between audience members in the United States and social activists in Mexico and Bolivia. His work has been screened on six continents and in Museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York City. In 2004 his humorous short film “Gringotón” (Gringo-thon) received the Latin American Studies Association Award for Merit in Film.

"In a breath-taking cross-border initiative, Berger adroitly flips the paradigm of globalization, using the international communications potential of the simple cell phone to establish live real-time contact with Mexican activists trapped in a semi-feudal time-warp. So far, yet so close."

- Craig Baldwin, curator and internationally acclaimed filmmaker

Greg Berger is currently on tour in the U.S. along with LAFN filmmaker Jill Freidberg. Please contact us for information on how to bring Greg and Jill to your area.

 

 



 

 

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