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Heidi Berg (they/them) is an Emmy nominated Director, Creative, Artist, and mental health advocate
As a queer, trans and nonbinary storyteller— their work touches that liminal space between the personal and the transpersonal, utilizing the language of metaphor, archetype, and myth to craft visuals ripe for projection.
Heidi grew up in Utah within a Mormon community. They started their career in print while studying in San Francisco, graduating from The California College of the Arts (CCA) with a BFA.
Heidi's body of work spans such companies as Netflix, HBO, Google, Apple, Nike, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and title sequences for Hollywood, Ratched, The Politician, Pose, The Outsider, The Alienist, Truth be Told, and other culture-setting programs.
In collaboration, they crafted the main title and graphics for the HBO documentary special Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground, and in 2019 they co-directed the opening film for the Semi-Permanent conference in Sidney.
Heidi's talents were also deployed in varied roles for production houses (creative direction on pitches), RadicalMedia, CAA, Reset, MJZ (freelance creative director and director), Elastic, and (freelance art director/designer) The Mill.
Heidi is a member of the Free The Work community and seeks to build additional resources and support for Trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive artists in the industry.
Their work has been awarded and cited by the Television Academy--garnering two Emmy nominations for The Politician and The Alienist title sequences--AICP, AIGA, Cannes Film Festival, CMYK, Print, Shot On Red Film Festival, and The San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design.