American Splendor
Harvey Pekar's autobiographical comics, adapted as a film that lets its subject narrate his own dramatization.
Directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Academy Award nominee · WGA winner · Sundance Grand Jury Prize
Rowhouse Films
New York
Selected film and television work by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.
Feature Films
6 Titles
The Nanny Diaries
An anthropology graduate takes a job on the Upper East Side and studies the household from inside it.
Directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
The Extra Man
An aspiring playwright moves in with an eccentric older gentleman who escorts wealthy women on the Upper East Side.
Directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini · Screenplay by Robert Pulcini, Jonathan Ames & Shari Springer Berman · Executive produced by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Girl Most Likely
A stalled New York playwright is returned, unwillingly, to her mother's house in Ocean City.
Directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Ten Thousand Saints
Adopted teenagers, straight-edge hardcore, and the vanishing East Village of the late 1980s.
Directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Sundance Film Festival premiere, 2015
Things Heard & Seen
A marriage relocates to a Hudson Valley farmhouse that keeps a record of everything that happened in it.
Directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Television
10 Titles
Cinema Verite
The making of An American Family — the 1973 series that put a household on camera and invented reality television.
Directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Primetime Emmy winner · 9 Emmy nominations
The New Yorker Presents
Amazon's screen adaptation of the magazine, moving between documentary, fiction, essay and reportage. Their segment stars Paul Giamatti.
Segment directed and written by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini — “Le Café de Balzac”
Shameless
The Gallagher family of the South Side, across eleven seasons.
Episodes directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
“You'll Know the Bottom When You Hit It” (S9E12)
Series-wide: 4 Emmy wins · 16 Emmy nominations
Succession
A media dynasty at war with itself.
Episodes directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
“Safe Room” (S2E4) · “Lion in the Meadow” (S3E4) · “Tailgate Party” (S4E7)
Series-wide: 19 Emmy wins · 9 Golden Globe wins
Night Sky
A couple in rural Illinois guard a chamber that opens onto another world. With Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons.
Episodes directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
“Boilermakers” (S1E4)
WeCrashed
The rise and collapse of WeWork, with Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway.
Episodes directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
“The One with All the Money” (S1E8, finale)
Fleishman Is in Trouble
A Manhattan divorce told from one side, then unmade by the other.
Episodes directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Series-wide: 7 Emmy nominations
Only Murders in the Building
Three true-crime obsessives share an Upper West Side building — and a body.
Episodes directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Series-wide: 7 Emmy wins · 61 Emmy nominations
The Four Seasons
Three couples, four vacations, and the quiet arithmetic of long friendship.
Episodes directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Series-wide: 2 Emmy nominations
Vladimir
A campus novel adapted for television.
Episodes directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Awards & Recognition
Selected honoursFeature Film
American Splendor
Academy Award nominee · WGA winner · Sundance Grand Jury Prize
31 wins / 50 nominations
Television
Cinema Verite
Primetime Emmy winner · 9 Emmy nominations
7 wins / 34 nominations
Series-wide Recognition
Recognition belonging to series on which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini directed episodes. These awards were received by the series and their teams.
Succession
Only Murders in the Building
Fleishman Is in Trouble
The Four Seasons
Shameless
About
Rowhouse Films is the New York–based production company founded by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Working across independent film, documentary, and television, the company is known for character-driven storytelling and a body of work that moves fluidly between fiction and nonfiction forms.
Shari Springer Berman
Founder / Writer / Director
Academy Award– and Emmy-nominated filmmaker whose work spans independent film, documentary, limited series, and episodic television.
Robert Pulcini
Founder / Writer / Director / Editor
Academy Award– and Emmy-recognized filmmaker and editor whose work spans independent film, documentary, limited series, and episodic television.
Antonio Pulcini
Partner / Strategy & Development
Development, brand positioning, audience strategy, and special projects.
Their projects have been recognized by the Academy Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Writers Guild of America, Golden Globes, and major critics organizations. Their credits span feature films, limited series, and episodic television for leading studios and platforms.
This site presents a selected catalogue of their work and recognition.