Joe Berlinger

Joseph Joe Berlinger born October 30 1961 is an American documentary filmmaker who in collaboration with Bruce Sinofsky has created such films as Paradise Lost about the West Memphis 3 Brothers Keeper Some Kind of Monster and Crude In collaboration with journalist Greg Milner Berlinger has also written a book called Metallica This Monster Lives which is about his journey from making the poorly received Blair Witch 2 to creating Some Kind of Monster with Metallica one of the worlds most famous metal bands Berlinger has also worked in TV series such as Homicide Life on the Street DC and FanClub The first movie Berlinger directed in 1992 was the documentary My Brothers Keeper which tells the story of Delbart Ward an elderly man in Munnsville New York who was charged with seconddegree murder following the death of his brother William Chicago Tribune film critic Roger Ebert in his review of the movie called it an extraordinary documentary about what happened next as a town banded together to stop what folks saw as a miscarriage of justice He graduated from Colgate University in 1983 He lives with his wife and daughters in New York