Adam Benzine

Torontobased Adam Benzine is renowned as a journalist having written extensively about the business of the entertainment industry for The Toronto Star The Globe and Mail The National Post Variety The Hollywood Reporter Realscreen C21 Indiewire and many other publications He wrote produced and directed the Academy AwardnominatedHBOZDF documentary emClaude Lanzmann Spectres of the Shoahem which was screened by festivals and broadcast by networks across the globe It was the only Canadian work this century to have earned the distinction of Oscar IDA and Cinema Eye Honors nominations in the US alongside four Canadian Screen Award nominations and a British Grierson nod It had its world premiere at Hot Docs in 2015 His second film emThe Curveem is the first major reclamationist documentary of the postCOVID19pandemic era A bold hybrid work made during the first lockdown of 2020 the film examines the calamitous response of the American government to the COVID19 pandemic across the first 90 days of the outbreak We list his credits as a director firstbrbr