J Nathaniel Berke

writer/producer
Director, Producer and Screenwriter

New York City, New York

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September 2015

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About J

I am a New York City based writer/producer.

Current Projects In Development:

Based on the award winning games "Godlike" & "Wild Talents" by Dennis Detwiller (co-creator of "Magic The Gathering") - both shows are in development with producers from Netflix's "Umbrella Academy." Both shows take place in a world where parahumans, called TALENTS, begin inexplicably manifesting during WW2. Talents are triggered by emotional, physical or psychic stress and are able to temporarily re-write the laws of physics through sheer will alone. Talents can recognize abilities in others and can cancel those abilities simply by believing more.

The shows are very grounded (no capes, costumes or code names) and deal with the political, social and philosophical ramifications of parahumans in the real world.

GODLIKE: a WW2 set adult animated series with Titmouse Animation
WILD TALENTS: contemporary live action series/film

GRACE BEATS KARMA: THE PERSECUTION & RESTORATION OF NEAL CASSADY: a four episode mini-series based the man who was the "big bang" of the American Counter-Culture. Neal Cassady was a brilliant, complicated man ruled by addictions to speed, jazz and sex. He
not only inspired Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" during the Beat Generation but had a second wave during the LSD fueled Psychedelic Era of the Merry Pranksters & Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests.

Cassady's legacy includes countless writers, artists and musicians such as The Grateful Dead, David Bowie and Kurt Cobain.

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Male

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Where the Road Ends Drama Jack Kerouac’s road across America is an alcohol-soaked, drug-infused, sexually charged superhighway paved with poetry, jazz and love. The Beat Generation icon’s journey of spiritual discovery ultimately ends in heartache and regret. Yet at the end of his tragically short life, one man helps Jack face the torments of his painful childhood, conquer the demons of fame and fortune, and find peace in a lost friendship. For Jack Kerouac, this is WHERE THE ROAD ENDS.

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Piercing the Veil of Time the Life and Art of Charles R. Knight (2016)
Film by J. Nathaniel Berke (Documentary) Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, Cinematographer
Secret Adventures to Shanghai (2016)
Film by Terri Spaugh (Adventure, Comedy, Drama and Fantasy) Producer A journey of comic hijinks and dramatic misadventure between a teenage girl and a magical dog kidnapped by a desperate Chinese basketball team owner.
Nu ren ru hua (2012)
Film by Wenliang He (Drama) Writer China, 1930. Spurned by her fiance, a young woman is forced to raise her child with the help of a stranger - a stranger with a surprising secret, concealed behind a locked door.
An Unkindness of Ravens (2000)
Film by J. Nathaniel Berke Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, Production designer When an American writer translates a mysterious Japanese novel his ideas of truth and fiction blur and he begins to question his very existence.
Woman Rose (1996)
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