About Me

An award-winning filmmaker, PHIL BERTELSEN works in both fiction and non-fiction. His narrative feature debut, Rock the Paint, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it received the Creative Promise Award. Bertelsen produced the Peabody Award-winning Chisholm ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on public television. His first film, Around the Time, was a drama honored with several awards, including a Student Academy Award while his next film The Sunshine also won numerous festival awards including a Director’s Guild East Award. Additionally, Bertelsen wrote and directed Outside Looking In, an hour- long documentary examining trans-racial adoption in America airing on PBS.