Born and raised in New York City, Adam made his first film in high school in place of a term paper. Since that time he has directed six award-winning shorts, showcased in dozens of film festivals and won prestigious grants from Kodak and Panasonic.

His short film, Dare, has played over 50 film festivals around the world, garnering six "Best Of" awards from - among others - Outfest, The Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Sidewalk Film Festival. It was picked up by Strand Releasing and distributed in the fifth edition of their successful Boys Life series, available on DVD nationwide.

Adam graduated Magna Cum Laude from Emory University as a creative writing major. He recently completed his MFA coursework at Columbia University's Graduate Film Division where, in his second year, he was the sole recipient of grants from Kodak and Panasonic, the former for his work as director of Panasonic Kids Witness News, a program that teaches under-privileged inner-city kids how to make their own short films.

He is currently directing his first feature documentary, Recruiter, which is in postproduction. Filmed in the summer of 2006, Adam spent five weeks with recruiters for the United States Marines, watching them try to make their quota -- or "mission," as they call it -- for the month of May. It is an exclusive look into secretive and controversial world military recruiting.

His next project will be his first fictional feature film, a full-length version of his short film, Dare, based on a screenplay by David Brind. The story was made the Top 20 for the 2006 Sundance Screenwriters' Labs and won the Zaki Gordon Award for Excellence in Screenwriting, one of Columbia Graduate Film Division's highest honors.

Philadelphia-born filmmaker David Brind has directed three short films, including the current Twenty Dollar Drinks starring Sandra Bernhard and Tony-Award winner Cady Huffman, which recently had its premiere in competition at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.

Additionally, David wrote and produced the award-winning short film dare, which, after playing over 50 film festivals worldwide, was picked up by Strand Releasing as part of Boys' Life 5, a successful series of gay-themed short films, available on DVD in stores nationwide.

Returning to his theater roots, David directed Sandra Bernhard in her latest one-woman show titled Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad and Beautiful, which recently had a fourmonth run Off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater, and will tour in 2007. David also participated as a director in the Summer 2006 benefit of The A-Train Plays at New World Stages, where he directed Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q Tony Nominee) and Jeb Brown (Ring of Fire) in a short play by Craig Pospisil. And in August 2006, David directed Cady Huffman (The Producers) in her first one-woman show, which premiered at the Ars Nova Theater.

David recently completed his M.F.A. coursework at Columbia University's Graduate Film School. He received his B.A from Yale University as a double major in Theater Studies and American Studies. While at Yale, he directed productions by playwrights including Bertolt Brecht, Maria Irene Fornes, and Douglas Carter Beane.

David is presently hard at work on the feature-length version of dare, for which his screenplay was one of the final 20 in consideration for the 2006 Sundance Screenwriters' Labs and a winner of the Zaki Gordon Award for Excellence in Screenwriting. He has also recently acquired the rights to the non-fiction book Harvard's Secret Court by author William Wright, the adaptation of which will be his next screenplay project.