J. Nathaniel Berke is a successful screenwriter in Hollywood.  He has written screenplays on commission for actors Sammo Hung (television's Martial Law) and Hiep Thi Li (Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth). In 1997, he was hired by Silver Dream Productions to pen the adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's Pavilion of Women.  His directorial debut, An Unkindness of Ravens, premiered at the 2001 Manchester Film Festival and was purchased by Showtime and Universal Television U.K.   His original screenplay, The Singing Well, is currently in pre-production by Tokyo Based Sanjuro Pictures and the Nanjing Film Studio.  Berke’s original screenplay, Visions of Paradise:  The Life and Death of Jack Kerouac, is currently in development by London-based Urban Myth U.K.  His documentary, The Blue Edge, explores the life and journeys of legendary writer and freediver Carlos Eyles.  Berke is an accomplished underwater cameraman whose footage has been seen in films produced by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Limulus Productions.  He is currently working on a documentary about American Paleo-Artist Charles R. Knight called Piercing the Veil of Time:  The Life and Art of Charles R. Knight.

Berke served as staff writer and English language director at the Shanghai Film Studio.  He graduated from the University of Central Florida's Creative Writing Department and Full Sail:  School of Film, Art, Design, Music & Media Production. 

Besides anything involving the ocean his other hobbies are paleontology, archelology and history.