While enrolled in the Columbia University graduate film program, she was hired by British director Don Boyd (Aria, Twenty-One, My Kingdom) in 1989 to work on the East-West thriller entitled The Berlin Project.
[2] The film probes the dark side of modeling and features fashion icons such as Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Karl Lagerfeld, and Calvin Klein.
[3] Janet Maslin of The New York Times called the film “a terrific and lively feminist analysis.”[4] In 1998, Otto-Bernstein met American theatre and opera director Robert Wilson (Einstein on the Beach, Black Rider, Lohengrin) at a cocktail party.
The film features prominent collaborators such as Philip Glass, David Byrne, Tom Waits, Jessye Norman, and literary icon Susan Sontag in one of her last interviews.
In 2018, Otto-Bernstein was an executive producer on The Price of Everything, a documentary examining the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money driven, consumer-based society.
[16] Otto-Bernstein is a principle of Film Manufacturers Inc., an international production company that develops, produces and co-produces innovative fiction and non-fiction entertainment, with offices in New York and Munich.