Director
Adam Baran
45 years · Englewood, NJ · 12 films
Adam Baran is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, producer and curator interested in telling stories of queer history and identity. His films as director include the award-winning documentary short Trade Center (2021), Dirty Boots (2014) and Jackpot (2012). He produced the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary Circus of Books (2020) and is an associate producer on Jeffrey Schwarz's upcoming Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (2021). Baran is also known for writing the hit webseries Hunting Season. Many of his contributions to the groundbreaking gay publication BUTT Magazine were included in the Taschen press compilations, Butt Book and Forever Butt. He is the longtime co-curator and host of Queer/Art/Film, a monthly screening series at NYC's IFC Center.
Best known for
Filmography 12
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026 · Self
Orgy Every Other Day
2024 · Actor
Altered Innocence Vol. 2
2023 · Director
How to Have Sex in a Pandemic
2022 · Producer
One Drift and We All Go Home
2022 · Producer
Trade Center
2021 · Producer, Director
Circus of Books
2019 · Producer
On Netflix
Dirty Boots
2014 · Director
Jackpot
2012 · Director, Writer
Courts mais Gay : Tome 10
2005 · Director
Jungs von nebenan
2005 · Director
Love and Deaf
2004 · Director, Writer