Danny Berish
Directing
Biography
With close to 20 years experience working in film and television, Danny Berish is an award-winning film director. In 2014, he co-founded Black Rhino Creative, a documentary film production company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling. A passion for finding the human spirit in every film, he has created content for broadcasters such as CBC, YTV, AMI, Discovery Channel, IFC and CTV. Danny’s recent achievements include a six-part Indigenous food and travel series Red Chef Revival, currently being distributed internationally by Marble Media. The series premiered at a special event screening at Hot Docs, and earned him a Leo Award for Best Direction. The series also received a 2020 Golden Sheaf Award, the 2019 Best Doc Series of the year by Doc Weekly and was a 2020 Webby Awards Honouree.
Known For
Danny Berish’s grandparents met at a nudist camp in 1949. In an effort to understand his grandparents’ radical lifestyle, he meets and mingles with members of Van Tan, Canada’s oldest naturist club.
Nude to Me
A documentary that explores the life and legacy of Arthur Erickson, Canada's most acclaimed architect of his time, with a focus on his identity as a gay man in a profession and era where "being gay was bad for business." Renowned for shaping Vancouver’s landscape with masterpieces like Simon Fraser University, UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, and Robson Square, Erickson’s modernist-brutalist style bore classical roots. While he kept his personal, professional, and family lives largely separate, his partner Francisco Kripacz, considered the love of his life, designed interiors for many of his projects. The documentary also examines Erickson’s fall from grace in the 1980s and '90s, his struggles during the AIDS crisis that claimed many close to him, and his professional resurgence in his later years.
Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between The Lines
Outside In examines the hard science behind a movement of healthy home design called biophilia, which suggests that building healthier homes can affect positive changes in our blood pressure, heart rate and stress hormones.