Sam Adelman has worked in the editing rooms of over fifty features, for such directors as Sidney Lumet, Nora Ephron, Robert Redford, Susan Seidelman, Andrew Bergman, Ed Harris, Roger Michel, and Ted Demme (Monument Avenue).
A graduate of the SUNY Purchase Film Department, he founded S.T., an audience-fueled critiquing workshop that brought together writers and actors for weekly readings of new plays and screenplays.
Usually taking place between freelance editing jobs, there were over 100 readings spanning a 5 year period. Participants and supporters included Hal Hartley, Elizabeth McGovern, Robert Burke, Edie Falco, Robert Clohessy, Stanley Tucci, Steven Weber, and J.D. Zeik (Ronin).
He is also the editor of the Sundance film Roberta, (2000), as well as Crooked Lines, (2003), winner of the Audience Prize at the Williamsburg Film Festival and Changing Lanes (Starring Ben Affleck). His favorite job was for the American Museum of the Moving Image, their annual celebrity tribute, gathering film clips and watching all of Al Pacino's movies with Al Pacino. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica, and their 6-year-old masterpiece, Charlotte. Screen Door Jesus is the first film he's produced.
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