Adam is an independent filmmaker and editor. He has made three independent documentaries, projects which covered stories over many years, each taking 3-6 years to complete. These are films about social justice, with an overlapping focus on faith communities and identity. “My most recent documentary was American Muslim (2019), chronicling five diverse Muslim Americans in New York City dealing with a changing landscape and Islamophobia at the beginning of the Trump era. Previously I made The Return (2014), a film about four young women in Poland today who were raised Catholic but discovered they were Jewish in their teens. The film was shot over a four year period in Poland, Israel and the U.S. as they were rediscovering their Jewish identity. Prior to that, I released Greensboro: Closer to the Truth (2007), about the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission held in the U.S.—in Greensboro, NC from 2004-2006. It received the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Rome International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Dead Center Film Festival. I have received many prestigious grants, from sources such as The Sundance Documentary Fund, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, The Southern Humanities Media Fund, The Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, and many others. Previous to starting my own film productions I worked on multiple large scale projects for PBS; I produced and directed the third episode of Davis’ Emmy- award winning series Free to Dance (2003, PBS). I am simultaneously an award-winning editor and have cut dozens of feature documentaries on a very wide range of subjects. I graduated with a BA in Filmmaking, and awarded with Departmental and Academic honors from Binghamton University, and have taught at the Rockport Film Workshops, Lee Strasberg Institute, Downtown Community Television, Film/Video Arts, and for a number of years I’ve served as an Editing Mentor at the IFP Documentary Rough Cuts Lab.”