Low Budget Indie Film-making Perils and Pinnacles

Adam Lipsius has decided to tell his Indie film-making secrets and share the perils and successes of his career in film-making. During this presentation, Adam will also take the time to tell us how he got his first production over the starting line and into millions of homes.

Adam Lipsius just wrote, produced and directed “Crime Story,” an action-thriller starring Academy Award Winners Richard Dreyfuss and Mira Sorvino for Paramount Pictures. He’s developing non-fiction series on contemporary and historical subjects currently along with “The Picture,” a series adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," starring Lindsey Shaw ("Pretty Little Liars") and Emily Marie Palmer ("Mercy Street").
Previously, he produced and directed “Amy & Sophia” (2018) a dramatic feature that played The Denver, Sedona, and Heartland Film Festivals, winning Best Welsh Feature at the Cardiff Int’l Film Festival. He wrote and directed the disaster feature “Oceans Rising” in 2017 for SyFy Channel and Netflix. He authored a kid's mystery novel “Knox Chase on the Case” in 2016. He produced the sci-fi-action feature “Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine” for California Pictures in 2015. He wrote the disaster feature “Asteroid vs. Earth” for SyFy Channel and Netflix in 2013. He produced and directed teen rom-com “16-LOVE” for Warner Bros. Digital (winning top acquisition of the year) in 2012.
An alumnus of Dartmouth College where he wrote "The Birth of Dr. Seuss," for his Presidential Scholars Thesis and a graduate of USC Cinema-Television where his Production MFA Thesis Film "4° (Four Degrees)" won an Institute for Humane Studies Scholarship, Adam worked in post-production on films for Martin Scorsese, Milos Forman, Ang Lee, James Mangold and John Sayles, among others. Nominated for a Golden Reel for ADR on Barry Sonnenfeld’s “Men in Black,” Adam has won numerous awards for his shorts and commercials.
He lives in Denver with his wife and kids where he serves on the Boards of Rocky Mountain PBS and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver.