Kim Adelman began her producing career with the indie feature, Just Friends. She then launched the Fox Movie Channel's short film program, where the 19 shorts she produced won 30+ awards and played over 150 film festivals worldwide, including the Sundance Film Festival four years in a row.
Most recently, Ms. Adelman returned to indie film producing with the feature Hancock Park (2025) while also associate producing the short Help is...on the Way? (2023) , production managing the short My Demon (2025), and acting in the short En Pointe (2024).
EDUCATOR
Ms. Adelman teaches Low Budget Filmmaking and Developing the Short at UCLA Extension. In 2014, she was named UCLA Extension's Entertainment Studies Instructor of the Year. In 2016, she won its Distinguished Instructor Award.
She also teaches the grad school courses Writing the Short Film at Cal State LA, Cinema Production II at Mount Saint Mary's University, and Creative Producing 2 at the Seattle Film Institute.
In addition to guest lecturing at USC, LMU, UC Irvine, and Cal State Fullerton, she has taught filmmaking workshops across the US, Canada, and New Zealand. Additionally, she led multiple creative writing workshops for kids at UCLA’s Hammer Museum via 826LA and filmmaking for teens at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum.
AUTHOR
Her short film book, Making it Big in Shorts, is on its third edition and has been published internationally in Spanish and Mandarin. The three pop culture books she wrote for Penguin Random House are The Girls Guide to Elvis, The Girls Guide to Country, and The Ultimate Guide to Chick Flicks. which was also published in Japanese.
MULTI-HYPHENATE
Ms. Adelman was also Director of On Air Creative Production for Style Network until that network shut down. She has worked at multiple cable networks and FAST channels including FX/FXM, E!, G4, PopTV, the Game Show Network, and Cinevault.
Over the past two decades, Ms. Adelman has also reported extensively on festivals and short films for Indiewire, co-programmed the American Cinematheque's annual Focus on Female Directors short film screening series, and co-founded FFC: the Female Filmmaking Collective. She has also been a jury member and/or a panel moderator at numerous international film festivals, including Sundance Next and the Los Angeles Film Festival during its final year.
She has recorded a five-part educational podcast on independent filmmaking for UCLA Extension and co-hosted the 15-episode movie adaptation podcast Book to Screen, both available on Apple Podcasts.
She has also appeared on screen as a cinema expert in the ARTE documentary From Weepies to Chick Flicks, E!'s Hollywood & Sex special, and the DVD extras for Love Me Tender and Ghost. She was profiled for Women Transforming Media and recently has been interviewed on Film Courage, Indie Film Hustle, and Selling Your Screenplay podcasts.
