Paul Mayeda Berges

Paul Mayeda Berges
Paul Mayeda Berges at the Berlinale 2017
Born	(1968-09-11) September 11, 1968 Torrance, California, US
Years active	1990 – present
Spouse	Gurinder Chadha

Paul Mayeda Berges (born September 11, 1968 in Torrance, California) is an American screenwriter and director.

Of Japanese and Basque ancestry, Berges attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied film and graduated in 1990. He began his career by making documentaries (on the Japanese American community) and teaching film production (to high school students). He has collaborated with his wife, British-Indian director Gurinder Chadha, on a number of films and made his directorial debut in 2005 with The Mistress of Spices, based on the novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

Berges officially met his wife in March 1994, while he was working as a Festival Director at the San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival. But they had also briefly met in September 1993. They married in the mid-nineties and have twins together; a boy named Ronak and a girl named Kumiko (born June 7, 2007).

Filmography

Year	Film	Type	Credit
1990	Blue Funnel	Short Film	Writer
2000	What's Cooking?	Feature film	Writer
2002	Bend It Like Beckham (2002)	Feature Film	Writer
2004	Bride and Prejudice'	Feature Film	Writer
2005	The Mistress of Spices	Feature Film	Director, Writer
2006	Paris, je t'aime – Quais de Seine	Anthology Film	Director, Writer
2008	Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging	Feature Film	Writer
2010	It's a Wonderful Afterlife	Feature Film	Writer
2016	Viceroy's House	Feature Film	Writer, Producer

External links

• Paul Mayeda Berges at IMDb
• BBC Movies: Interview – Paul Mayeda Berges (April 2006)
• Birmingham Mail: Film Reviews – Film: Gurinder Chadha reveals how marriage and babies were written in her stars (April 23, 2010)
• Culture.com: Bend It Like Beckham – About The Filmmakers
• Filmmaker GURINDER CHADHA: Could She 'Bend It' Without A British Accent?
• RS Bollywood Online: Premier Indian Film Portal – Gurinder Chadha gives birth to twins (June 9, 2007)
• The Writing Studio: The art of writing and making films – THE MISTRESS OF SPICES (Paul Mayeda Berges – Director/Writer)
• Toronto International Film Festival