| Your vocation(s) (hold Control key to select multiple): |
Festival director |
| Bio: |
Adam Roffman has been working in the film industry since 1996. Adam started as an intern on the television program Bill Nye: The Science Guy and worked primarily with their prop department for one season. Following that Adam began working on feature films primarily in props, set decoration, and production design. Over the last decade Adam has worked on Robert Altman's TANNER ON TANNER, Martin Scorcese's THE DEPARTED, the Farrelly Brothers FEVER PITCH, Ben Affleck's GONE BABY GONE, Peter Hedges' DAN IN REAL LIFE, Wolfgang Peterson's THE PERFECT STORM, and David Mamet's STATE AND MAIN to name a few projects.
In 2001 Adam wrote, starred in, and co-directed the short film THE TERROR OF THE INVISIBLE MAN which played at 28 film festivals and was then acquired by the Independent Film Channel.
In 2003 Adam became a founding staff member and Program Director of the Independent Film Festival of Boston (http://www.iffboston.org) which has grown into New England's largest film festival. Each year the Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFB) draws a good mix of out-of-town distributors, producers, directors, and press and mixes them with the local filmmaking and filmgoing community to create a vibrant and film-loving atmosphere. The book The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide named the festival the premier film festival in Boston. The festival draws over 20,000 in attendance each year and has hosted such guests as:
Steve Buscemi
Chris Cooper
John Waters
Lili Taylor
Noam Chomsky
Ted Hope
Bill Pullman
Melvin Van Peebles
Illeana Douglas
Robert Vaughn
Films that IFFBoston has brought to the area for the first time include:
Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck's HALF NELSON
Mark & Jay Duplass's THE PUFFY CHAIR
Jeff Iwanicki's NOT A PHOTOGRAPH: THE MISSION OF BURMA STORY (World Premiere)
Lauren Greenfield's THIN
Steven Ascher & Jeanne Jordan's SO MUCH SO FAST
Andrew Bujalski's MUTUAL APPRECIATION
Gregg Araki's MYSTERIOUS SKIN
Miranda July's ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
Steve Buscemi's LONESOME JIM
Jem Cohen's CHAIN
Ondi Timoner's DIG!
Guy Maddin's THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD.
In 2007 Adam turned to producing and is working on two features to be completed by the end of the year. |
| Current Project (s) and What you're seeking (explain in more detail what "I'm Looking For"): |
The Independent Film Festival of Boston, seeking new films of every length and genre. |
