Adam Baran

Birth : 1981-03-20, Englewood, NJ

History

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.

Movies

One Drift and We All Go Home
One Drift and We All Go Home
Producer
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.
Synonymous With
Synonymous With
Thanks
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
Trade Center
Trade Center
Producer
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
Trade Center
Director
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.
Circus of Books
Circus of Books
Producer
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.
Dirty Boots
Dirty Boots
Director
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.
Jackpot
Jackpot
Director
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
Jackpot
Writer
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.
I Want Your Love
I Want Your Love
Thanks
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”.
Jinx!
Jinx!
Writer
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!
Jinx!
Director
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!
Jungs von nebenan
Jungs von nebenan
Director
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
Taxi
Taxi
Production Assistant
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.
Love and Deaf
Love and Deaf
Writer
A talkative man finds Mr. Right in the men's room.
Love and Deaf
Love and Deaf
Director
A talkative man finds Mr. Right in the men's room.