Berger's first feature film as writer/director was the documentary ''Don't Eat The Baby: Adventures at post-Katrina Mardi Gras'', which played the closing night of the 2007
New Orleans Film Festival. The film examined the city of
New Orleans staging its first
Mardi Gras after the devastation of
Hurricane Katrina and included interviews with Mardi Gras historians, activists, and residents effected by the flood. The film's title refers to the plastic baby hidden inside a
King Cake. His next film was
The Scenesters, which he made with the comedic film group The Vacationeers (Kevin M. Brennan,
Jeff Grace, and Blaise Miller). The
found-footage black comedy, which told the tale of
crime scene workers attempting to catch a
serial killer, premiered at the 2009
Austin Film Festival, played the 2010
Slamdance Film Festival (where it won the "Most Interesting Film Award") and later received distribution through
Monterey Media. Following that was ''
It's a Disaster, starring Julia Stiles, David Cross, and America Ferrera. The black comedy was the story of four couples who meet for brunch only to find themselves trapped inside during a VX (nerve agent) attack. It premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival where it was acquired for distribution by Oscilloscope Pictures. The Hollywood Reporter'' called it "one of the funniest films of recent vintage." His most recent film
Cover Versions was produced by
Lakeshore Entertainment and starred
Katie Cassidy,
Drake Bell,
Debby Ryan, and
Jerry Trainor. A
murder mystery involving four band members telling varying accounts of a night of sex, drugs, and murder before their first big show at a popular
music festival, it premiered at the 2018
Palm Springs Film Festival and was acquired for distribution by
Sony Pictures. Parts of the film were shot on location during the Kaaboo Del Mar music festival in
San Diego, California. In addition to the films he's directed, Berger wrote the
Netflix Halloween comedy
The Curse of Bridge Hollow, original drafts of
The Happytime Murders, an R-rated comedy puppet film directed by
Brian Henson and starring
Melissa McCarthy, and is writing a screenplay for a film adaptation of ''
Where's Waldo? He also wrote the ABC Family original film Chasing Christmas and is credited as the writer of several animation projects, including Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five''. Berger directed the first season of the television show
Liberty Crossing which premiered on the
go90 network in January 2018. Berger has appeared as an actor in films, such as
Southland Tales, and on the television shows
Parks and Recreation and
Maron. Berger has been involved with the
Slamdance Film Festival as a feature film programmer. In December 2022 it was announced that Berger was developing the television show "12 Rocks In A Box," which he created, with
Bill Lawrence's Doozer Productions and
Warner Bros. Television Studios for
HBO Max. ==Books==