| Birth Date: | 11 September 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Torrance, California, U.S. |
| Children: | 2 |
| Spouse: | Gurinder Chadha |
| Years Active: | 1990 – present |
Paul Mayeda Berges (born September 11, 1968) is an American screenwriter and director. He is known for his work on films such as 2002's Bend It Like Beckham.[1]
Of Japanese and a "bit of Basque" ancestry,[2] 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 Chadha in March 1994, while he was working as a festival director at the San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival. 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).
| Year | Film | scope+"col" | Type | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Blue Funnel | Short film | Writer | |
| 2000 | What's Cooking? | Feature film | Writer | |
| 2002 | Bend It Like Beckham | Feature film | Writer[3] | |
| 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 | 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 | |
| 2019 | Blinded by the Light | Feature film | Writer |