Sam Adelman Producer, Artistic Director
For over twenty years, Sam has worked as a filmmaker in the editing rooms of over 50 feature films with such luminary directors as Sidney Lumet, Andrew Bergman, Ulu Grosbard, Robert Redford, Frank Gilroy, and Nora Ephron.
He is the founder of ST, a script development workshop that ran for 5 years in various New York locations, hosting over 100 readings with moderated critiques afterward.
Since 2002, he has been a Producer of two feature films, "Screen Door Jesus" and "Welcome to Academia," as well as the Academy Award-nominated short documentary film "Salim Baba."
In 2011, he produced and edited the documentary "Beautiful People," directed by Elzbieta Szoka. Sam is a graduate of the SUNY Purchase Film and Theater Arts program.
He currently works and lives in NYC with his wife, Jessica, and their daughter, Charlotte.
Elzbieta Szoka Producer, Writer, Director
Elzbieta Szoka was born and raised in Lodz, Poland. She received her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Warsaw in Poland and a Ph.D. in Brazilian Literature and Culture from the University of Texas in Austin.
After a 20-year stint in academia as a literary and theater scholar, she became involved in film-making as executive producer and script advisor on the movie "Screen Door Jesus." She co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Welcome to Academia" with Kirk Davis a few years later and is currently developing new projects with Sam Adelman for Paradox Smoke Productions.
"Beautiful People," a documentary that celebrates the musicians who make up New York City's longest running traditional Irish music seisiun, represents her directorial debut. She is also a translator and editor for Host Publications, an international literary press which she co-founded with her husband, Joe W. Bratcher III, in 1988.
Elzbieta lives in NYC with her husband and their two sons, Adam and Ian.