Adam Spielberg is the founder of Filament Productions. His most ichecent feature, FAN GIRL, a feature comedy starring Kiernan Shipka and Meg Ryan, premiered on ABC Family. Filament’s new short STRYKA (starrring Rupert Friend and Aimee Mullins) from director Emily Carmichael is set to premiere soon on a major online platform. Filament’s first feature, ARCADIA, starring John Hawkes, won the Crystal Bear at the ‘12 Berlinale. Filament’s first doc, Jamie Meltzer’s INFORMANT, won best doc at DocNYC, and was the #1 doc on iTunes. Filament’s doc LAST SEASON produced with Josh Penn and directed by Sara Dosa, was nominated for an Indie Spirit award. In addition to two docs currently in production, Filament is developing a host of genre content including features, sci-fi web series, and several stop motion projects. Before founding Filament, Adam was an executive for six years with Gigantic Pictures, where he produced Ramin Bahrani’s PLASTIC BAG starring Werner Herzog (Opening night short Venice ‘10), Co-Produced NIGHT CATCHES US starring Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington (Sundance ’10), and was associate producer on Adam Salky’s DARE (Sundance ‘09). He also worked on Comedy Central’s iconic Chapelle’s Show. Adam teaches producing in the US program of the French film school ESRA.
