To begin at the beginning...
Born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver, BC, Adam Matthew Chin takes his inspiration from his Chinese-Jamaican single mother and globetrotting Northern New Mexican father. Adam has a degree in screenwriting from Stanford University, and studied theatre at the University of British Columbia, and acting at the prestigious Studio 58 program in Vancouver. As an actor, he has worked in film, TV and theatre. As a writer, director, producer and editor he has created award-winning feature films, plays, short films, industrials, and music videos. Adam has written four feature screenplays that placed in the quarterfinals of the prestigious BlueCat (2016), Final Draft Big Break (2019), and Scriptapalooza (2023) screenplay competitions. His first feature Shedding Skin premiered at the Academy qualifying 8th annual Santa Fe Film Festival (2007) and the 9th annual Gulf Coast Film Festival (2007). His second feature The Pardoner’s Tale played at the Santa Fe Film Festival (2009), the Albuquerque Film Festival (2010) — where it secured a distribution deal from River Coast Films — and the Action on Film Festival (2011) in Pasadena, California. Since then, Adam has worked around the globe for organizations as diverse as Funny or Die, New Urbanist Media, the American Film Institute and the World Bank Group. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California, but is currently attending Columbia University’s Screenwriting & Directing MFA in New York City.