Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1980, Adam Sanderson started directing when he was nine years old. Following the success of a music video he directed for his hip-hop band, Sanderson began directing numerous videos for Israeli musicians. These projects led him to direct award-winning TV trailers and commercials.
In 2010 Sanderson co-directed This Is Sodom, a feature film parodying the last days of Sodom. In 2013 he wrote and directed his second film, Funeral at Noon, a period drama adapted from the critically acclaimed Israeli novel of the same name. The film premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival; subsequently, it garnered the Best Actress Award at the Haifa Film Festival, the Critics’ Award at the Montpellier Film Festival, and the Special Jury Award at the Cyprus Film Festival.
Sanderson co-created and solely directed all three seasons of Sirens, a thriller TV series, in Israel. For his work on it, Sanderson was nominated for Best Director twic
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1980, Adam Sanderson started directing when he was nine years old. Following the success of a music video he directed for his hip-hop band, Sanderson began directing numerous videos for Israeli musicians. These projects led him to direct award-winning TV trailers and commercials.
In 2010 Sanderson co-directed This Is Sodom, a feature film parodying the last days of Sodom. In 2013 he wrote and directed his second film, Funeral at Noon, a period drama adapted from the critically acclaimed Israeli novel of the same name. The film premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival; subsequently, it garnered the Best Actress Award at the Haifa Film Festival, the Critics’ Award at the Montpellier Film Festival, and the Special Jury Award at the Cyprus Film Festival.
Sanderson co-created and solely directed all three seasons of Sirens, a thriller TV series, in Israel. For his work on it, Sanderson was nominated for Best Director twice at the Israeli Television Academy Awards. A remake of Sirens was in development with HBO. Sanderson is currently developing a film based on Saul Bellow’s novel The Victim. The script, set in America, was written in English by Sanderson and his sister Dina. Sanderson directed three episodes for season two of the Amazon Original series Absentia.
