Adam Nichols Russell
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Born and raised in Connecticut, Adam attended college in Boston, abroad in Mexico City, and ultimately graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia with a degree in Film and Media Arts. He has spent 15 years immersed in the film and television industry in both Los Angeles and New York. Memorable production credits include crew work on HBO's OLIVE KITTERIDGE and SHOW ME A HERO, as well as Showtime's BILLIONS. These travels and experiences have shaped how he views the world leaving a lasting impression on his filmmaking and screenwriting style.
After writing, directing, and producing, LUCKY DAY -- which screened at various festivals, garnering Best Student Film at the 2008 Connecticut Film Festival -- Russell wrote a feature screenplay, Charlestown, which was selected Top 100 Semifinalist in the 17th International WriteMovies Screenwriting Competition. His short film FOR WHO I AM, screened at both HollyShorts and the Katherine Hepburn Center during the Connecticut Film Festival in 2012.
ONE THREAD (2022), a TV Pilot Adam wrote was a Quarterfinalist in the 2022 American Zoetrope (Francis Ford Coppola) Screenplay Contest - Top 40 out of 2,000 scripts. It was named a Finalist in the 2022 Rhode Island International Film Festival's Screenplay Competition (the largest festival in New England), out of 600 entries. It also made it to the Quarterfinalist stage of the 2022 Vail Film Festival Screenplay Contest.
Russell is simultaneously exploring his love of poetry. His last release was "Immense Yesterday" (2015); a collection of poems related to ancestry and immigration. He was named Semifinalist in Disquiet Program's 2023 Luso-American Writing Fellowship in Lisbon. The fellowship supports writers with genealogical ties to any Lusophone country who seek to engage in a cultural exchange between the US and Portugal. (Sponsored by FLAD - Foundation for Luso-American Development and Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal). This combination of poetic verse, an eye for visual composition, and a love of storytelling are the foundations upon which his projects are built. He seeks to create socially conscious works that are not just entertaining but illuminating.
After writing, directing, and producing, LUCKY DAY -- which screened at various festivals, garnering Best Student Film at the 2008 Connecticut Film Festival -- Russell wrote a feature screenplay, Charlestown, which was selected Top 100 Semifinalist in the 17th International WriteMovies Screenwriting Competition. His short film FOR WHO I AM, screened at both HollyShorts and the Katherine Hepburn Center during the Connecticut Film Festival in 2012.
ONE THREAD (2022), a TV Pilot Adam wrote was a Quarterfinalist in the 2022 American Zoetrope (Francis Ford Coppola) Screenplay Contest - Top 40 out of 2,000 scripts. It was named a Finalist in the 2022 Rhode Island International Film Festival's Screenplay Competition (the largest festival in New England), out of 600 entries. It also made it to the Quarterfinalist stage of the 2022 Vail Film Festival Screenplay Contest.
Russell is simultaneously exploring his love of poetry. His last release was "Immense Yesterday" (2015); a collection of poems related to ancestry and immigration. He was named Semifinalist in Disquiet Program's 2023 Luso-American Writing Fellowship in Lisbon. The fellowship supports writers with genealogical ties to any Lusophone country who seek to engage in a cultural exchange between the US and Portugal. (Sponsored by FLAD - Foundation for Luso-American Development and Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal). This combination of poetic verse, an eye for visual composition, and a love of storytelling are the foundations upon which his projects are built. He seeks to create socially conscious works that are not just entertaining but illuminating.
