Meet Shari

Shari Berman doesn’t worry about the “rules of filmmaking”, enjoys a bizarre sense of humor, and is creatively resourceful. Check out the reel below to see for yourself.

Shari is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has played at festivals around the world. That and $3 gets her on the subway. 

Selected Awards

Best Family Drama screenplay at the Las Vegas International Screenplay and Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature at the High Falls Film Festival
Best Director at Atlantic City Cinefest
Best Female Director at the Glendale International Film Festival
Best Experimental Film Award at the Zoie Film Festival
Runner up for best screenplay at the Long Island International Film Expo (this was for Pink Mist)
Gold Pass Award at the Long Island International Film Expo
Best Narrative Feature at the Village of Brewster Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature at the Boardwalk Film Festival
Audience Choice Award at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival
Prestige Award at the Manhattan Film Festival
Award of Excellence from Indie Fest

Featured Festivals

Rhode Island International Film Festival
Sarasota Film Festival
Louisville Internal Film Festival
St. Louis International Film Festival

Press

Shari Berman is an award-winning filmmaker,
published writer and film editor.

Shari’s features include My Life As Abraham Lincoln, Sugar! and Detention 101. She is gearing up to direct her next feature complete with her award-winning script – The Ghost in the Attic. This will be mostly shot in front of a green screen and only Shari knows what images will be placed in the background; you never know what you are going to get but I’m sure it will be worth the cost of the popcorn with extra fake butter and a ton of salt. If nothing else, watching the actors watch what she has done will be something to behold.

She edits all her films and began editing as a small child by cutting puzzle pieces to make them fit as she thought best, creating some very strange pictures. Shari knew even then that she was on to something and has embarked on a life of making one weird picture after the next. She just won’t stop. Really, there isn’t anything you can do about it so you might as well join in the fun, check out her films and embrace the weird. Besides, they are bound to catch up with you someday and it’s best not to let them catch you off-guard.

Her screenplay Numbers is available from Screenplay Press in paperback and ebook.

Shari grew up in Co-op City in the Bronx and is a member of Film Fatales, the FilmmakeHers and New York Women Filmmakers. She enjoys mentoring artistic people and striving to eat as much sushi and shrimp chips as humanly possible. I suspect she has mercury poisoning… her favorite character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has always been the Mad Hatter.