Adam Baran
Directing
Biography
Adam Baran is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, producer and curator interested in telling stories of queer history and identity. His films as director include the award-winning documentary short Trade Center (2021), Dirty Boots (2014) and Jackpot (2012). He produced the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary Circus of Books (2020) and is an associate producer on Jeffrey Schwarz's upcoming Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (2021). Baran is also known for writing the hit webseries Hunting Season. Many of his contributions to the groundbreaking gay publication BUTT Magazine were included in the Taschen press compilations, Butt Book and Forever Butt. He is the longtime co-curator and host of Queer/Art/Film, a monthly screening series at NYC's IFC Center.
Known For

A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
Taxi

Hunting Season is an American LGBT-themed comedy-drama web series created by Jon Marcus. Following the romantic and sexual exploits of Alex and his small group of friends in New York City, the story was inspired by and largely based on the 2005–08 blog The Great Cock Hunt and the 2008 novel of the same name published by Kensington Books.
Hunting Season

For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times.
Circus of Books

In the mid-1950s, Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, young composers and romantic partners, are hired by legendary silent film star Gloria Swanson to write a musical based on her film Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder in 1950.
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

A talkative man finds Mr. Right in the men's room.
Love and Deaf

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
Synonymous With

It’s 1994 and there’s no Internet. So 14-year-old Jack Hoffman sets off on a quest to find and retrieve a stash of gay porn from across town before anyone finds out.
Jackpot
“Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders" peels back the layers of controversy surrounding the making of the 1980 thriller, "Cruising." Directed by William Friedkin, the film triggered fierce protests from the LGBTQ+ community for its portrayal of a serial killer targeting gay men in New York's leather bars. Friedkin drew inspiration from the brutal murder of Variety reporter Addison Verrill, blurring the boundaries between cinematic fiction and real-life tragedy.
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders

The next edition of Altered Innocence's collection of short films is finally here with over three hours of LGBTQ and Coming-of-Age short films in two separately curated programs! Our 'Altered' program is a wild blast of strange and transgressive visions with films about virtual love dolls on a revenge tear, twinks eager to be annihilated, and a lesbian director obsessed with big boobs. The 'Innocence' program is a more tender and subtle program of loveliness with tales about brotherly love, modern transgender life, intergenerational relationships, and boys testing the limits of traditional masculinity.
Altered Innocence Vol. 2

Kenai, Alaska. July 1998. Commercial fishing has been closed for nine days. Dozens of workers have lost nearly an entire year's income waiting for regulations to lift... all while a nearby tourist spot teems with joyfully unregulated sportfishermen.
One Drift and We All Go Home

A collection of gay short films. The 10 short films are: Bikini (2004); Uproar [Vacarme] (2005); A Hard Blow [Le bon coup] (2005); The Homolulu Show (2004); Kissing Tigers [Embrasser les tigres] (2004); A Wonderful Day (2004); Boomerang [Comme un boomerang] (2005); Little Weakness [Petite faiblesse] (2005); Love and Deaf (2004); Fast Forward (2004).
Courts mais Gay : Tome 10

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.
Trade Center

Set in New York City’s queer underground sex party scene, Orgy Every Other Day explores the importance of creating space for all the letters of the queer alphabet to collectively experience the liberating potential of expressing and performing sexual desires while always respectfully asking for consent.
Orgy Every Other Day
When nerdy second grader Eleanor tries to join a schoolyard game, a bully named Rachel "jinxes" her. Unable to speak until someone says her name, Eleanor sets off on a madcap quest to break Rachel's diabolical spell before the 3:00 bell rings. As she navigates the cutthroat world of second grade, Eleanor seeks help from a stern math teacher, a deranged abstract artist, and a clueless father - with disastrous results!
Jinx!

A DVD containing 5 Short gay themed films: Styx (20 minutes) German; Stille Landschaft (8 minutes) Norwegian; E-Mail Express (2002) (8 minutes) German; Far West (17 minutes) French; Stille Liebe (Love and Deaf) (2003) (8 minutes) English
Jungs von nebenan

The work of sex-positive HIV/AIDS activists in the 1980s inspires Queer New Yorkers to revive and reinvent safer sex practices during the early months of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
How to Have Sex in a Pandemic

This video for Holopaw's "Dirty Boots" follows a sexually-charged day in the life of a gay biker gang in Brooklyn. They awake in a tangle of leather, then suit up and ride to an underground sex club to initiate new members. Boundaries are pushed, but the boys find love, family and the unexpected.
Dirty Boots

What happens when two friends give in to their urges? "I Want Your Love", a new new short film by indie director Travis Matthews illustrates very explicitly what it could feel like to fuck a good friend after having a few glasses of wine together. Like the movies Mathews shot for his documentary series “In Their Room” the movie is very tenderly shot, and like other contemporary queer indie movies it combines both narrative and pornographic elements in a way that blurs the borders between a “feature film” and a “porn film”.