Adam Pinney
Writing
Biography
Adam Pinney is a writer/director whose 2016 film, The Arbalest, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, and was previously selected to participate in the 2015 IFP Narrative Labs. Adam was the cinematographer for Joe Swanberg’s 24 Exposures, and for Adult Swim’s viral short, Too Many Cooks. In recent years he co-wrote and co-directed the short Lily’s Mirror as well as producing Megan Dahl’s short documentary, Tessa, both of which garnered awards across the festival circuit. He is co-owner of Opalite Pictures.
Known For
When a young boy goes missing inside his own house, Detective Skok of the Missing Persons Unit immediately recognizes the unusualness of the case and takes the opportunity to have his team move in with the family and become residents of the crime scene. What follows is an investigation that leaves no stone unturned, no family member un-interrogated – and no wall without an entire wallpaper made up of missing posters.
Congratulations!
"Too Many Cooks" is a humorous parody of US sitcoms of the 1970s and the 1980s, meanwhile what seems like an interminable opening theme, a mysterious killer makes his way and kills (preparing a lunch with their limbs) various members of the Cook Family.
Too Many Cooks
In the near future, gas prices are at an astronomical high. One man is determined to find an alternate fuel source. That alternate fuel source turns out to be blood... HUMAN BLOOD.
Blood Car
A retired couple's quiet picnic in the park is violated by a silent intruder whose story exposes the troubling mysteries of existence.
The Adventure
Billy is a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead. Michael, a melancholic cop, is tasked with investigating him.
24 Exposures
The inventor of the world's greatest toy reflects on his obsession with a woman who hates him.
The Arbalest
A housewife's comfortable life unravels when she suddenly stops loving her husband.
Poor Jane
Ray Patterson, a 47 year old unemployed dad, spends his days hitting baseballs at the community park in a desperate attempt to make it back onto the Atlanta Apaches, a major league baseball team he was signed to when he was younger. His struggles with drinking, which got him booted from the team in his early 20s, are still a daily problem. Ray is plagued with dreams of what he believes are Native American ghosts and supernatural forces that are attempting to bury him and his dreams in the dirt. When a metaphysical event threatens Ray's existence, his family watches hopelessly, while his wife, Holly, finds comfort in suburban witchery and the cosmic answers that the Tarot provides.
Mudville
An inventor accidentally lands his mother in jail for child pornography with a teenage sex tape he kept.
A Is for Alex
Struggling with phantom-limb syndrome after a dinner date severs her hand, Lily (co-writer/co-director Linnea Frye) is given a therapeutic mirror box that enables an unexpected paranormal ability. A super inventive experimental dramedy that tackles the dead-serious subject of gendered violence and the social conditionings that enable it.