Paul Mayeda Berges

Mittwoch, 11. September 1968

Paul Mayeda Berges (born September 11, 1968) is an American screenwriter and director, notably as co-writer of 2002's Bend It Like Beckham. Of Japanese and Basque ancestry, Berges attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied film and graduated in 1990. He began his career by making documentaries (on the Japanese American community) and teaching film production (to high school students). He has collaborated with his wife, British-Indian director Gurinder Chadha, on a number of films and made his directorial debut in 2005 with The Mistress of Spices, based on the novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.