Phil Bertelsen Director and Producer (Who Killed Malcolm X)
October 26, 2022
Phil Bertelsen is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning filmmaker based in NYC. He works both in scripted and unscripted film and TV.
Most recently, he produced and directed a six-part series Who Killed Malcolm X with his producing partner Rachel Dretzin of Ark Media. It begins streaming on Netflix in January 2020. Prior to that, Bertelsen and Dretzin completed a documentary special Hope and Fury about MLK, the media and the civil rights movement which aired in primetime on the NBC network and MSNBC.
Bertelsen also directed a documentary special about the presidency of Barack Obama called Through The Fire. Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, it was broadcast on BET, and is now available on Amazon Prime.
