Don Bernier | Principal

As a producer/director, Don Bernier's work has screened at Slamdance, Los Angeles Film Festival, Independent Film Festival of Boston, San Francisco International Film Festival and numerous other venues across the country. His 2005 documentary feature, In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian, was nominated for an IFP-Gotham Award and won a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival. Currently, he is developing a new program about urban wildlife conflict, entitled The Concrete Jungle.

Bernier is also an Emmy nominated documentary editor. He has edited several programs for David Grubin Productions in New York, including episodes of the award winning PBS series, The Mysterious Human Heart and The Jewish Americans. In 2009, Bernier co-edited the PBS special, The Botany of Desire, based on author Michael Pollan's best-selling book. He has cut several episodes of National Geographic Television's popular Explorer series, including Mystery of the Disembodied Feet and, most recently, Gang War USA for Winton/duPont Films in San Francisco. He just finished editing Eames: The Architect and the Painter for American Masters on PBS.

Bernier received a BFA at Kansas City Art Institute before going on to earn a graduate degree in media study at SUNY-Buffalo. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Tina Erickson.

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