A
writer and director, Adam Schlachter spent
his youth attending various schools in five
settings: His native birthplace of Lajas,
Puerto Rico, the rural outskirts of Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, the residential
suburbs of Miami, Florida, the capital city
of Tallahassee, Florida, and the urban
streets of Los Angeles, California. A sucker
for life's thrills, traveling included, what
better way to see and experience the world
and its cultures than in filmmaking? He
visited over twenty countries to date,
mostly in Europe and America.
Adam is currently enrolled as a Graduate
Directing Fellow at the American Film
Institute, has a B.F.A Degree in Film
Production from the Florida State
University's School of Motion Picture,
Television, and Recording Arts, a
Professional Program Certificate in
Screenwriting from the University of
California. Los Angeles' School of Theater,
Film, and Television, and attended the
University of Southern California's School
of Cinema¬Television and the Coral Gables
International Baccalaureate Program. He has
an extensive technical background and has
created many feature screenplays and short
films.
Adam's feature screenplays include
"Nebraska", "The Extra", "The First Hit",
"Deep Breath", "Top Ten", and "Stray
Bullet", the latter workshopped in the
Creative Content Foundation Screenwriters'
Lab. His shorts include "Palmarejo", "Don't
Look Back". "The Back Entrance",
"Nightmare", "Night Driving", "European
Journey", "Sail / Wounded", "Some Want To
Fly", "Soledad", "Facing The Ocean",
"Marty's Liquor Stop", "Drake & Tony",
"Caution To The Wind", "My Backyard Was A
Mountain", and "Father Figure".
Adam was recently accepted into the Writers
Guild of America West and is a member of the
Independent Writers Caucus. To lock the
budget of his American Film Institute thesis
film, "My Backyard Was A Mountain", he
received the prestigious HSF / McNamara
Family Creative Arts Project Grant from the
Hispanic Scholarship Fund. He is the
recipient of a Diversity Scholarship from
the Multicultural Motion Picture Association
and is a finalist in this year's Esquire
Magazine Celluloid Style Short Film
Competition.
Adam is a published poet in the
International Library of Poetry and was a
certificated teacher in the Los Angeles
Unified School District. He has participated
and placed in several prestigious workshops
and contests, including the NALIP Producers
Academy Workshop, the Creative Content
Foundation Latino Screenwriters Lab, the
Desi Arnaz Memorial Scholarship Workshop in
the Los Angeles Latino International Film
Festival, and the NALIP Latino Writers Lab
in the New York International Latino Film
Festival.
Adam's lifelong goal has remained intact:
'to touch and enlighten the hearts of a
select audience. He is currently developing
a feature screenplay, "1986", and hopes to
direct it sometime in the fall. He is also
attached as a producer of the "Stray Bullet"
screenplay.
Past Recipients