Adam’s earliest experience of cinema can be traced back to recurring childhood nightmares of ‘Pinocchio’. It was around this time he decided he wanted to be a filmmaker. Upon leaving school he opted for a fallback qualification and graduated in 2008 with a BA in philosophy.

Adam’s first written project Just Desserts (2015) starring Alex MacQueen won the Discovery Award at the London Comedy Festival and was picked up for distribution by Amazon Prime. Turning the lens upon his own community, Adam set his next film The Outer Circle (2018) within London’s Iraqi diaspora. The script was awarded the UK Pears Short Film Fund and played in over 30 festivals worldwide. The Covenant (2020) was awarded funding by The Story Lab and premiered at the 2020 UK Jewish Film Festival. In 2021 Adam graduated with honours from the Columbia University Screenwriting and Directing MFA programme. He was awarded the BAFTA New Talent scholarship in both 2019 and 2020.

Since graduating, Adam has written for and collaborated with the following critically-acclaimed, award-winning filmmakers: Laszlo Nemes (SON OF SAUL); Eric Abraham (IDA); Naji Abu Nowar (THEEB); Greg Shapiro (THE HURT LOCKER); Alexander Rodnyansky (LEVIATHAN); Mike Goodridge (THE TRIANGLE OF SADNESS).

Adam is a mentor at Arts Emergency, an organization designed to help young people get a fair start in the arts and humanities.