Adam Bhala Lough is a Punjabi-American film director, producer and writer with a proven track record crafting award-winning film and video content which generates high profits and global viewership on Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Showtime, BBC, and many others. He currently spearheads the documentary division of Rough House Pictures - Danny McBride, David Gordon Green and Jody Hill’s production company with a first-look deal with HBO. After directing three music videos for MF DOOM at the age of 19, he made his feature directorial debut at the age of 23 with Bomb the System (2002), nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature it put him on Filmmaker Magazine’s Top 25 Indie Filmmakers to Watch list. His follow up WEAPONS (2007) starred a young Nick Cannon and Paul Dano and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Adam switched gears to Documentary soon after and directed The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, narrated by Academy Award Winning actor Benicio Del Toro (2008) and the critically acclaimed and highly controversial Lil Wayne documentary The Carter (2009). Despite being banned from release by its subject, The Carter has been listed among the greatest music documentaries of all time in NME, Rolling Stone, Complex and many other publications. Adam’s film The New Radical (2017 US Documentary Competition, Sundance Film Festival) featuring an exclusive interview with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London before his arrest, focused on Bitcoin and 3D Printed Guns and was released in theaters across the US in late 2017, landing on No Film School’s Top 10 Political Docs of the Year list. His latest film is Alt-Right: Age of Rage (2018), currently on Netflix in the US and the BBC in the UK. For that film he embedded himself with both the Alt-Right and ANTIFA movements for over a year. He is comfortable working in dangerous environments and dealing with difficult people, from Blood gang members to Neo-Nazis to A-list celebrities.
Adam is a graduate of New York University’s film school a frequent mentor at the Sundance Native and Latino screenwriter’s labs and served on Sundance’s Diversity Outreach Committee. His work is driven by an obsession with storytelling and music as well as a deep love and curiosity for humans of all stripes. Making movies since the age of 16, he has dedicated his life to telling compelling stories, collaborating with interesting people and creating authentic work.
