Amy J. Berg

[2] Born to a Jewish family,[3][4] Berg grew up in the San Fernando Valley and lives in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

In addition, she has written numerous articles for the National Organization for Women, The Jewish Journal and a number of monthly and weekly periodicals in the United States and France.

In April 2014, Variety confirmed that Berg had spent the previous two years working on a documentary about child sexual abuse in Hollywood[8] entitled An Open Secret.

[10] On November 24, 2014, Berg and Matthew Cooke launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds towards creating American Race, a documentary addressing "the black male crisis" in the US.

Berg adapted the film from Sam Brower's book Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation Into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints.