Adam’s earliest experience of cinema can be traced back to recurring childhood nightmares of ‘Pinocchio’. It was around this time he decided he wanted to be a filmmaker. Upon leaving school he opted for a fallback qualification and graduated in 2008 with a BA in philosophy.

Adam’s first written project Just Desserts (2015) starring Alex MacQueen won the Discovery Award at the London Comedy Festival and was picked up for distribution by Amazon Prime. Turning the lens upon his own community, Adam set his next film The Outer Circle (2018) within London’s Iraqi diaspora. The script was awarded the UK Pears Short Film Fund and played in over 30 festivals worldwide. His most recent short The Covenant (2020) was awarded funding by The Story Lab and premiered at the 2020 UK Jewish Film Festival.

In 2021 Adam graduated with honours from the Columbia University Screenwriting and Directing MFA programme. He was awarded the BAFTA New Talent scholarship in both 2019 and 2020. Adam is currently working on a feature screenplay for Academy Award-winning producer Eric Abraham (IDA) and Academy Award-winning director Laszlo Nemes (SON OF SAUL).

In his spare time Adam brews kombucha and gives his friends unsolicited life advice. He still thinks about becoming a professional philosopher and hopes one day to shoot a feature in Baghdad.