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Amy Berg's newest dark movie isn't a documentary -- finally
After directing "Deliver Us From Evil," her Oscar-nominated 2006 documentary chronicling sex-abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church, Amy Berg set her sights on directing a narrative feature.
"Since 'Deliver Us From Evil,' I have been getting a lot of scripts and a lot of meetings with people," the 44-year-old Berg said at the quaint Venice home she shares with her dogs.
"I am totally creatively satisfied making documentaries, but I do enjoy the idea — this is going to sound really strange — of taking on something that is not so real and the stakes aren't so high."
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