Adam Singer

Adam D. Singer began working with Kartemquin Films in 1989 spending 5 years on the critically acclaimed documentary Hoop Dreams and has continued his association with them for the past 19 years. He has worked on various productions, both nationally and internationally, as a producer, cameraman and sound recordist.

With Kartemquin he won a national Emmy for co-producing Vietnam, Long Time Coming. He spent 4 years working with Kartemquin on the PBS series The New Americans (2004). He produced, with director Steve James and Gordon Quinn, the feature length documentary Stevie. The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, won numerous international awards including Best Documentary Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Documentary at IDFA in Amsterdam and the prestigious Mayors prize at the Yamagata Doc festival in Japan (2003). Also with Kartemquin he produced, directed and shot the series Life Stories for Mississippi Public Television.

He produced and shot, with director Peter Gilbert, With All Deliberate Speed a feature length documentary about the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation in America. The film premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, opened theatrically, was broadcast on The Discovery Channel in 2005 and was nominated for an Emmy for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking’

Recently he co-produced, with Steve James and SenArt Films, The War Tapes, a feature length doc comprised primarily of footage shot by National Guard soldiers in Iraq. The film premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival where it won ‘Best International Documentary’ and went on to win the top prize at the 2006 BritDoc Film Festival. The Film was shown in theaters throughout the US and was broadcast on The Discovery Channel in 2007. He also co-produced Made In China, which screened at the 2007 Seattle International film festival, The Vancouver International Film festival and the 30th annual Big Muddy Film Festival. Singer also produces and shoots on the critically acclaimed A&E documentary series First 48 following homicide detectives investigate murder and the Emmy winning doc series Made, focusing on teenagers, for MTV.