Adam was born in South Africa and moved with his family in 1980 to the United States. His film, "The Cricket Player," is based on his own personal experience. "When I lived in South Africa, I played cricket. But when I moved to the U.S., everyone played baseball. In order to fit in and get along with everyone, I had to learn how to play baseball. Cricket and baseball are entirely different sports, but like them both," he says. Adam studied International Relations as an undergraduate, after which he spent two years traveling all over the world. While traveling, he indulged in one of his favorite pastimes, photography. He took photographs everywhere he went. After his travels, he set out to make a documentary and eventually found himself in Southern California attending the University of Southern California (USC) film school. "During those two years that I traveled, I took a lot of pictures of people. Especially of their eyes. You know, in films, you'll see a lot of shooting of close-ups. I think that when you photograph someone's eyes, you capture their thoughts and their feelings. It's often said that the eyes are the window to the soul." While Adam feels comfortable as film director and cameraman, he explains what he feels are the big differences between still photography and motion pictures. "There are plenty of differences and similarities. I think they're similar because I'm looking at things from my view - I see something or someone a certain way, and I try to capture that thing or that person in my own way. But in narrative film, you have to understand a variety of things in order to express yourself. You have to know how to use actors, how to use sound, how to use all sorts of complicated equipment, and so on. So, when you shoot a film, you have pull your knowledge of a lot of different things together to make it work." Does Adam, who was born in South Africa, and now a resident of the U.S. think there's a connection between one's nationality and films? "Personally, I feel that films reflect more a person's life experiences more than a person's nationality. I was born in South Africa and mostly raised in the U.S. but I also lived and studied for a few years in Paris. So when I make films, I think they will always include aspects of cultures or countries that I've been to and where I've had some kind of significant, meaningful experience. Nationality is important, but I believe that life experience is more significant in shaping a person's character." With "The Cricket Player" behind him, what's Adam going to do next? "In terms of genre, I think I like drama the best. "Braveheart" and "Lawrence of Arabia" are some of my favorite films, and I would love to make films like that. The film school I went to, USC, is known for producing filmmakers who make films like that, and I'd like to someday make films on that scale."