Adam Benzine

Adam Benzine is an Academy Award-nominated, British-Canadian filmmaker and journalist, based in Toronto.
As a filmmaker, he made 2020’s groundbreaking COVID-19 documentary thriller The Curve, as well as the Oscar-, Grierson- and IDA-nominated ZDF/HBO documentary Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, which in 2021 became the first motion picture to be turned into an NFT.
As a journalist, he has written for publications such as the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Independent, MOJO, Music Week, The Hollywood Reporter, Realscreen, Indiewire and Variety.

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Films by Adam Benzine

Oscar-nominated biographical documentary examining the life and work of pioneering French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, and the making of his 1985 Holocaust masterpiece Shoah Trailer
“First-Ever Digital Release of Shoah with the Oscar Nominee, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of Shoah a Vital Educational Counterpart”. Trailer
An investigative documentary thriller covering America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, tracing the decisions and mistakes made by the U.S. government over a crucial three-month period, using a creative blend of interviews, archival material and original music. Trailer