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OUR PROJECTS

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POINTING FINGERS
"The first-ever fiction feature film about, written by, and starring people with minimally-speaking autism

Genre: Romance, Drama

Written by Dan Bergmann

Directed by Michael Bergmann
 

When an intelligent and ambitious young couple lliving with minimally-speaking autism are wrongfully accused of murder, they must find a way to bring the real killer to justice while facing extreme social bias.

ck new scenes in this free-association experience.

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OF TWO MINDS
"A curiously satisfying psychological mystery" - The Guardian

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Genre: Drama, Video Game

Written and Directed by Michael Bergmann

Concept by Michael Bergmann & Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed
 

New York, late 80s — Annie and Rex, psychoanalysts by trade, are having an affair. Embark on a journey into the unconscious, using psychoanalysis to investigate what drives their relationships, and how their past defines them and the people surrounding them, in this psychological FMV game.

The unfolding of the plot is based on your own personality and observation: analyze the characters by connecting ideas and motivations to unlock new scenes in this free-association experience.

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PUZZLED

Half-hour episodic series - In development

Genre: Comedy

Directed by Michael Bergmann

Original Idea by Daniel Bergmann

Written by Michael Bergmann, Daniel Bergmann, Kate Herzlin...

Synopsis: show-within-show 20-minute comedy series. We meet a film crew shooting Vicky & Mickey, a show featuring two crime-fighting lovers who are really great at taking down bad guys...and really bad at everything else. The cast and crew developing this show suffer from their own lack of life skills. Each week, their issues derail their shoot days. They work together to build their life skills, shoot - and improve - their show, and gradually become a little less... puzzled.

Starring: James Kacey, Melissa Mars, Jasper Hamilton...

Watch on Prime Video!

Puzzled

BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES THE OPERA

Based on Tom Wolfe's bestseller "The Bonfire Of The Vanities" 

Feature Film from Live Performance

Genre: Comic Opera

Music by Stefania de Kennesey

Libretto & Direction by Michael Bergmann 
 

Story: Trader Sherman McCoy invents a bond so hot it propels him to the top of the financial world. But just as he scores the highest bonus and the sexiest mistress, he gets sucked into a scandal centering on a hit-and-run incident of a young black man in the South Bronx, that brings all of New York City crashing down upon him.


Represented by House of Film

Bonfire the Opera

INFLUENCE

Completed Feature Film

Genre: Romantic Comedy
 

Story: In this poignant romantic comedy, Francis and Laura, two teens with autism, go on a first date, communicating by typing on letter boards with the assistance of their parents. As the date unfolds, doubts assail the young lovers about the role their parents are playing in helping form their ideas... Do they influence them or is it the other way around, as the young man spells to his father: “So your thoughts, were they really ours?”

 

Written and Directed  by: Michael Bergmann 

Starring: James Kacey, Rachel Zeiger-Haag, Kim Cristo...

Produced by: NewYorkRep, Burgeon & Flourish

Presented by: APL

Influence
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