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- Joe Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) and Bruce Sinofsky (March 31, 1956 – February 21, 2015) were a team of American documentary filmmakers that have won cult fame and critical acclaim.
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Joe Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) and Bruce Sinofsky (March 31, 1956 – February 21, 2015) were a team of American documentary filmmakers that have won cult fame and critical acclaim.
Bruce Sinofsky (March 31, 1956 – February 21, 2015) was an American documentary film director, particularly known for his films the Paradise Lost trilogy, Brother's Keeper and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, all created with Joe Berlinger.
Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky followed the case and its initial trial in the 1996 documentary Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, which questioned the guilt of the West Memphis Three.
Aug 24, 2011 · Eighteen years ago filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were alerted to a murder case in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three youths – James Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Jessie Misskelly –...
- Sex and Outrageous Stories at HBO
- An Unexpected Brother-Hood
- Paradise Found
- Therapy Sessions with Metallica
- Killer Conversations For Netflix
- Bringing Conspiracy Theories Out of The Shadows
After graduating from Colgate University, Berlinger takes an advertising gig with Ogilvy & Mather, where he meets David and Albert Maysles, the doc pioneers behind films like Grey Gardens, and was “a student of their ethos,” he says. Later, as HBO experiments with reality programming, Berlinger joins up with his future partner. I got to know [then-...
Together, Berlinger and Sinofsky decide to buck the prevailing trend in documentaries. By the early 1990s, documentary had become a spoonful of castor oil: good for you but not tasty going down. The model had become looking at history through talking heads and archival footage. Ken Burns was — and is — the master of that format, but it was still fo...
With the case of the West Memphis Three, Berlinger finds a subject that would consume him for more than 18 years, resulting in three films — and an introduction to Metallica. Within a week of the arrests [of the West Memphis Three], we were shooting. We filmed from June 1993 until March 1994, after the second trial ended. We shot for more than 80 d...
Berlinger’s first foray into dramatic filmmaking, a 2000 sequel to The Blair Witch Project, fell flat, but Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, his behind-the-scenes account, returned to his doc roots and healed his relationship with Sinofsky, which had hit a crisis point. Cliff, Bruce and I had talked about a Metallica film, but it never materialized....
Berlinger finds a new outlet at Netflix with his Conversations With a Killer series that explored the psyches of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. Journalist Stephen Michaud had interviewed Ted Bundy on death row and published the book Ted Bundy: Conversations With a Killerin 1989. He reached out to me in 2016 and said, “I have all the...
For his current Peacock series, Shadowland, inspired by reporting in The Atlantic, Berlinger travels across the country to understand what fuels the conspiracy thinking dividing America. There are two perspectives to conspiracy theories, and only through understanding them can we address the issue at hand. It’s almost a cliché, but democracy is ver...
- Stacey Wilson Hunt
Feb 25, 2015 · Mr. Sinofsky worked often in collaboration with Joe Berlinger, with whom he shared directing, producing and editing chores on his best-known films.
Joe met his future directing partner, Bruce Sinofsky, while they were both employed by the Maysles. Together they would make their directing debut with the 1992 film Brother's Keeper.
