Adam Friedman, president and ceo
Friedman is currently in production on A&E Biographies of Dolly
Parton and NASCAR; an A&E Special: Celebrity Home Video; two
new series for iNDEMAND, the HD network; Mr. Know It All, a pilot for
The History Channel; documentaries on racing legends Parnelli Jones and
Alex Zanardi; as well as developing the first original scripted
dramatic series for the Discovery Networks, EYES ONLY.
He is also prepping the television movie They All Wore Blue, an A&E
Networks/Fox Television Studios co-production. He also is in
post-production on a film that he wrote, directed, and produced titled
And She Was… starring Patrick Warburton and Brad Dourif. In
addition Adam is developing the Joe R. Lansdale novel A Fine Dark Line
as a feature film. Lansdale is currently writing the
script.
And that is only the first two months of 2006…
Adam has served as Executive Producer on more than twenty-four
Biographies for the A&E Network including the Emmy Award nominated
Biography of John Travolta; the CINE Golden Eagle Award winning
Biographies for Kevin Costner, The Rock, Bruce Willis, and Sylvester
Stallone; the Telly Award winning Biographies for Val Kilmer and
Richard Gere; and the Cable Ace Award Winning Series EPIC BIOGRAPHIES.
He also produced The Crash of Flight 191, a 90-minute Special for The
History Channel, which won the New York Festival Gold World Medal, CINE
Golden Eagle and Silver Telly awards. He followed that in 2005
with The Secrets of the Black Box, also for History, which won a Silver
Telly for the episode The Crash of Flight 007.
In 2004, Adam wrote and directed three cutting-edge promos for CHAMP
Car‰ and Spike-TV. Friedman sent a 750 horsepower race car
screaming through Times Square and the streets of New York. The
spots became the most downloaded videos on the Champ Car website.
Adam began his career in similar style. While still in college,
he convinced ABC Television to let him direct a documentary entitled
Wolves In Winter, about jazz musician Paul Winter and the first
inter-species jam session, featuring a pack of wolves and Winter.
Wolves In Winter was nominated for three Emmy Awards. His next
directing effort, Color Me Blue won him his first Emmy Award for
Outstanding Documentary Program as well as the New York State
Broadcasting Award.
Expanding his horizons, Adam jumped into the world of Music Videos,
working with The Rolling Stones, Hall and Oates, and Jean Luc Ponty and
the Joffrey Ballet. His Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue video was
part of the Whitney Biennial. And his video Big Mouth for the rap
group Whodini is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of
Modern Art.
After directing 50 music videos, Adam wrote the feature film Rappin’
for Cannon Pictures (“the street sensation that’s sweepin’ the
nation”). He even wrote three of the songs for the film’s hip hop
soundtrack, but his daughter will disown him if he mentions it.
Shortly thereafter, he made his feature film directing debut with
Medium Straight. The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival; it
received the Best in Show Award at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival,
and at the Seattle International Film Festival…
“Medium Straight was the major surprise hit of our line-up . . .
Receiving a crowd response unlike anything we saw in the other
festivals screenings which included Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues, and
Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger.”
-Darryl MacDonald, Director,
Seattle Film Festival
In 1991, Adam started Perpetual Motion Films, his first production
company. Under the Perpetual Motion Films banner Adam produced
over 120 hours of documentary programming including the award-winning
series Masters of War, Air Combat, and the A&E series EPIC
BIOGRAPHY focusing on historical figures like Michelangelo, George
Washington, and Ben Franklin. The work won A&E a Cable Ace
Award for Best Documentary Series, and the Ben Franklin, Michelangelo
and Washington Bios have been number 1 or 2 atop the Amazon.com
documentary sales charts for over 15 years.
Adam returned to feature films, directing the thriller To Sleep with a
Vampire for Roger Corman. Vampire was selected for the
prestigious Avoriaz Film Festival and won the Academy of Science
Fiction & Fantasy Award for Best Film.
“Adam Friedman does an incredible job, reinventing the genre and
bringing artistry to ‘Vampire.’”
-Roger Corman on To Sleep with a
Vampire
Adam Friedman, along with Bill Evashwick founded Traveling Light in
February of 2002. Their goal was to: “Create an environment where
the best supplant the many; where money goes on the screen instead of
paying an exorbitant overhead. A lean and mean crew also gives us
a quicker response time. We travel light and that enables us to
move . . . at the speed of light.”
Adam Friedman and Traveling Light have provided quality programming for
a number of networks such as HBO, Spike TV, A&E, The Travel
Channel, The History Channel, Court TV, and Discovery. Adam and
Traveling Light will continue to produce entertaining television
programming of the highest quality, while expanding into other arenas,
including feature films. In four short years, Adam has taken
Traveling Light to the top of their field.
The Filmography of
Adam Friedman
FILMS
and she was…
Writer/ Director
MARIE TORRE: A
Journalist’s Odyssey
Writer/ Producer/ Director
Medium Straight
Director
To Sleep With A
Vampire
Director
Grace Quigly
Co-writer – Selected Scenes
Rappin’
Co-writer
TELEVISION
A&E BIOGRAPHY
Executive Producer/ Director
John Travolta
Kevin Costner
Richard Gere
Mario Andretti
Bruce Willis
Sylvester Stallone
Val Kilmer
Paula Abdul
Tommy Lee
The Rock
Friends
Lisa Marie Presley
Heather Locklear
Steve Martin
Dolly Parton
LL Cool J
HISTORY CHANNEL
Producer/ Director
The Crash of Flight 191
The Crash of Flight 007
The Crash of Pan Am 103
The Crash of Aloha Air 243
FOX
Producer/ Director
When Good Pets Go Bad
The Secrets of Street Magic Revealed
ABC/DISNEY
Producer/ Director
Color Me Blue
Blue Angels 50th Anniversary
COURT TV
Producer/ Director
Hollywood Justice: Nick Nolte
Hollywood Justice: Eminem
Hollywood Justice: Shannon Doherty
A&E EPIC
BIOGRAPHY
Producer/ Director
Michaelangelo
Ben Franklin
Cleopatra
Thomas Jefferson
Pochahantas
Ponce de Leon
Susan B. Anthony
Andrew Jackson
Attila the Hun
George Washington
A&E NETWORK/
U.S. NEWS
Producer/ Director
Air Combat (26 Hours)
Masters of War (13 Hours)
HBO
Producer/ Writer/ Director
Unreal
Inside Out (3 Episodes)
VH-1
Producer/ Writer/ Director
It’s Your Thing (Pilot)
TRAVEL/ DISCOVERY
CHANNEL
Producer/ Director
Travel Detective
Probable Cause (4 Episoded)
PAX
Producer/ Director
Above and Beyond
MUSIC VIDEOS
THE ROLLING
STONES Emotional
Rescue
THE ROLLING
STONES Where the Boys Go
THE ROLLING
STONES Down in the
Hole
HALL & OATES
Wait For Me
HALL &
OATES
The Woman Comes
HALL &
OATES Be
Bop Drop
HALL & OATES
Intravino
HALL &
OATES
Portable Radio
WHODINI
Big Mouth
WHODINI
Freaks
WHODINI
Escape
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY
New Romeo
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY
Livetime-Concert Video
JAZZY JEFF
King
Heroin
JEAN LUC PONTY
Far From The Beaten Path
KIM MITCHELL
All We Are
D.C. STAR
I Wanna Rock
MICHAEL SHRIEVE
Transfer Station Blue
NOVO COMBO
Animtaion
Generation
NOVO COMBO
Too Long Gone
YASUKO NAGAMINE
Heaven
ZEBRA
Who’s Behind
The Door
RUNNER
Lies
THE NITECAPS
Go To The Line
THE NITECAPS
Same Situation
ALAN VEGA
I’m So Lonely
ALAN VEGA
Juke Box Baby
RASHDEE
How Much Is
Nothing
RASHDEE
Rain Go Away
BLIND DATES
Heat Seeker
ALAN MERRILL
Hard hearted Woman
DAVID SANCIOUS
I Can Take Care Of Myself
ROSEANNE CASH
Longform Video
LEON RUSSEL
Longform
Video
MARINES/D.
LINDLEY Promo
Video
SWIMWEAR ILLUS.
Music Video
The Awards of Adam
Friedman
Adam Friedman
CableAce
Award for Best Documentary Series (A&E Biography)
Emmy nomintations
John
Travolta
Biography for A&E; Wolves in Winter; Color Me Blue for ABC
To Sleep with a Vampire
Winner,
Academy
Of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Best Film Award; Official choice of
the Avoriaz Film Festival of the Fantastic
Medium Straight
Winner, Fort
Lauderdale
Film Festival; Best In Show, Seattle International Film Festival
Color Me Blue
Winner of
New York State
Broadcasting award
Most Improved Camper Award
Camp Soles
Secrets of the Black
Box: Aloha Flight 243
2006 Telly Award -
Silver
Champ Car Spot:
Motorcycle Cop
2005 Telly Award
-
Bronze
Champ Car Spot: Paul Tracy
Experience
2005 Telly Award
-
Bronze
Secrets of the Black Box: Crash of Flight 191
2005 New York
Festivels -
Gold Medal Award: Best Show History & Society
Gold Medal Award: Best Written Documentary
2005 Telly Award -
Silver
Secrets of the Black Box: KAL 007
2005 Telly Award -
Silver
A&E Biography: John Travolta
Nomination -
2002/2003 Primetime Emmy Awards
A&E Biography: Kevin Costner
2004
Cine Golden Eagle -
Winner
A&E Biography: The Rock
2005 Cine Golden Eagle -
Winner
A&E Biography: Richard Gere
2005
Telly Award -
Bronze
A&E Biography: Val Kilmer
2005
Telly Award -
Bronze
A&E Biography: Sylvester
Stallone
2005 Cine Golden
Eagle -
Winner
A&E Biography:
Bruce Willis
2005 Cine Golden
Eagle -
Winner
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