Get to Know Filmmaker Eddie Bernard!
Eddie Bernard was raised on the Lower East Side of New York City. During High school, he fell in love with the performing arts and attended the Penny Templeton School of Acting. Soon after, Eddie got his first role as a supporting actor in Stay Until Tomorrow; and has appeared in many commercials and TV shows. He graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in film production. Eddie then started 321 Content Inc.: a full-service boutique film production company.
Through Eddie's 15 year experience with many production companies: including Marvel, Paramount, Netflix, Disney, ABC, and HBO; he has mastered his skills in the art of documentary, commercial and avant-garde film making; as a multi-award winning filmmaker.
How Did This Project Come About?
Discover the Heart and Soul of Urban Ballet Theater
Urban Ballet Theater was the catalyst that changed the trajectory of Eddie’s future, and creating the film stems from his desire to document the lives that were changed and the enduring effects that Urban Ballet Theater has had on the national landscape of the art form. The film is an ode to these transformative outcomes. In the 1980s and early ‘90s, filmmaker Eddie Bernard was growing up on New York’s Lower East Side. During the same period, Daniel Catanach was in his late twenties and early thirties, traveling the world on tour and beginning his choreographic career. The likelihood of these two men ever meeting may have seemed slim to none. However, Catanach’s unexpected path to ballet had been similar to Bernard’s, and it’s what led Catanach to create a company that would have an impact on so many, including Bernard; which this documentary is based on.
