Todd Berger

Todd Berger is an American filmmaker and novelist who started out making movies with friends on a VHS camera while growing up in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. He studied film at the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote and directed the syndicated comedy show Campus Loop. He made his first feature, the documentary Don't Eat The Baby, which closed the 2007 New Orleans Film Festival. Next came the found-footage black comedy The Scenesters, made with the comedy group The Vacationeers, and then It's a Disaster (2012), with Julia Stiles, David Cross and America Ferrera. Later he directed Cover Versions (2018). He wrote The Curse of Bridge Hollow and drafts of The Happytime Murders, directed the first season of Liberty Crossing, acted in Southland Tales (2006), and wrote the novel Showdown City.