To begin at the beginning...
Adam Matthew Chin is a filmmaker and actor whose work has screened internationally and secured distribution. Born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver, he draws inspiration from his Chinese-Jamaican single mother and his globe-trekking New Mexican hippie father to craft bold, human-centered stories. A graduate of Stanford’s screenwriting program, he also studied theatre at UBC and trained in acting at Vancouver’s acclaimed Studio 58.
Adam’s career spans theatre, film, and television, both in front of the camera and behind it. He has worked in all three mediums as an actor. And as a writer, director, producer, and editor, he has created award-winning feature films, plays, shorts, industrials, and music videos. Four of his feature screenplays have advanced in top competitions including BlueCat, Final Draft Big Break, and Scriptapalooza.
His debut feature, Shedding Skin, premiered at the Academy-qualifying Santa Fe Film Festival and his follow-up, The Pardoner’s Tale, also screened at multiple festivals, securing distribution with River Coast Films. Since then, storytelling has taken Adam across the globe, in collaboration with organizations as varied as Funny or Die, the American Film Institute, New Urbanist Media, and the World Bank Group.
After a decade in Los Angeles, Adam is now sharpening his craft and developing his next slate as an MFA candidate in Screenwriting & Directing at Columbia University in New York.