Saturday, April 2, 2011

17.) Torben Bernhard, Director and Film Scholar

Ever since the age of 8, Torben Bernhard has had a natural inclination toward storytelling. His feature documentary film, “The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero... in Life, in Sound” (2010), premiered at Cinequest International Film Festival and received distribution through Dream Garden Press. Torben has directed and produced several short and feature documentaries that have screened at film festivals, received glowing reviews, generated community buzz and been selected for distribution. Torben was also recently a member of the design team for the Reinvention Summit, the world’s first virtual conference on storytelling. Some of his previous credits include: producer/director/writer “The Sonosopher”; director/editor “Tarkio Balloon”; story producer “Street Fighting Man”; writer/director “Some Dreams Die”; director/cinematographer/editor “Wrestling with God”; producer/director “Bangkok Cowboy”; producer “Una Vida Mejor: A Better Life”; among others. Film scholar Torben Bernhard appears on the Considering the Sequels Podcast as one of the special guests for the March 2011 BONUS episode on Extreme and Shock Cinema.