He is most noted as cowriter with Andrew Wreggitt of the television film Borealis, for which they won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.
[1] Berzins published a short story collection, Cerberus, with Goose Lane Editions in 1994.
[2] The following year Holly Dale directed Berzins's first screenplay, Blood and Donuts,[3] for which Berzins received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996.
[8] He has also been a two-time WGC Screenwriting Award winner, in 1997 for Straight Up and in 2001 for Scorn,[9] and was a nominee in 2000 for Cold Squad and in 2006 for Beowulf & Grendel.
His other credits have included the television series North of 60 and Tom Stone, and the documentary film Passage.