Amy J. Berg (born in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American film maker, known best for her Academy Award-nominated documentary film Deliver Us from Evil (2006) about the sex abuse cases in Roman Catholic Church and an abusive native Irish priest Oliver O'Grady. She has also directed a 10-minute-long documentary film Polarized (2007), for Al Gore's Live Earth Pledge.
Her most recent film, West of Memphis, produced by Peter Jackson and Damien Echols, documents the story of the West Memphis Three.
Born in a Jewish [1] family, Berg grew up in San Fernando Valley and lives currently in Santa Monica, California.[2]
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