Bernardo has a BFA in Film from LIU Post. His first film, Suffer the Little Children, won 4 awards and has been officially selected by 13 festivals worldwide. Bernardo directed and edited 7 short films, spanning many genres, at Stonestreet Studios. He has directed staged readings of feature-length screenplays and plays he has written and those written by others. Bernardo's experience includes feature film and short film editing, as well as television commercial copy-writing, direction and editing. Bernardo has also branched out into the world of theatre. One of his short plays Dementia Unlimited won four awards in the Chrysalis One-Act Festival winning four awards. Another, The Grasshopper Child, was selected for the First Draft Playwright's Circle. Bernardo has published a novella The Isle of Helyr and a trio of short stories entitled The Bloodmaster Trilogy. He is currently at work on myriad other projects.