Film Biz Chat

Adam Hyman has been a documentary filmmaker for the past twenty-seven years, producing and/or writing a variety of historical and archaeological documentaries that have aired on PBS, the History Channel, the Learning Channel, and others. He is currently producing and directing a film on R&B sax legend Big Jay McNeely. He was nominated for a Los Angeles area Emmy Award for producing a segment of SoCal Connected in 2016. He co-produced Worse than War, a documentary on genocide and mass murder, which aired on PBS in April 2010. He co-produced the 2007 Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning feature documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience and The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. He is also Executive Director and Head Programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum, the city's longest-running screening organization for experimental film and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation. Since assuming that role in 2003, he has programmed over four hundred screenings, and also was the Project Supervisor for the projects Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, and Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America as part of two different Pacific Standard Time initiatives of the Getty Foundation.