Adam brings a wealth of corporate and documentary media production experience to Vine Street Pictures. Prior to joining Vine Street, he was an executive producer at Sputnik Pictures for four years and supervising producer at QD3 Entertainment for two. Since the late nineties, he has produced and/or directed over fifteen award-winning documentary feature films including Hate.Com: Extremists On the Internet and A Season of Fury for HBO, The Monster That Ate Hollywood for Frontline/PBS, Life's Greatest Holiday Stories for CBS and BEEF: The Series for BET.
Adam has produced and directed numerous corporate films for clients including Intel, Levi's, Marriott, Visa, Aeropostale, Armani, Jones NY, Movado and many others. He has directed bonus behind-the-scenes material for the DVDs of such films as Indiana Jones starring Harrison Ford, Bandidas starring Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz and Domino starring Kiera Knightly.
Other independent documentary crowd-pleasers and festival winners that Adam produced include Karaoke Fever, Welcome Sinners! and People of Earth. In addition, he produced and directed Living with Lew, a critically acclaimed documentary about his friend Scott Lew's efforts to direct a feature film shortly after being diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease).
Most recently, Adam produced and directed Q: The Man, a documentary about music legend Quincy Jones and his charitable endeavors, slated for release through Warner Brothers in early 2009. He was also Supervising Producer on upcoming films Number One With A Bullet, about gun violence in urban communities and Concrete Jungle, about the intersection of skateboarding and hip-hop culture.
Adam was born and raised in London, England. His father, Gene Gutowski, is the acclaimed producer of the Oscar winning film, The Pianist , as well as the early Polanski classics Repulsion, Cul-De-Sac and Fearless Vampire Killers.