In 2015, Adam Benzine launched the production company Jet Black Iris. For its first project, he served as writer, producer and director of the HBO film "Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah," an Academy Award®-nominated documentary on the life and work of maverick filmmaker and French iconoclast Claude Lanzmann. The film had its world premiere at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto and its European premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in England, before going on to play more than 30 international film festivals throughout 2015. It was nominated for IDA, Cinema Eye, Grierson and Canadian Screen Awards, as well as many other international accolades. It is now in the permanent collection of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In addition to HBO in the States, the documentary was acquired by numerous international broadcasters, including ZDF for Germany, ARTE for France, CBC in Canada, Channel 1 in Israel, NPO2 in Holland, SVT in Sweden, TVP in Poland, YLE in Finland and DR TV for Denmark.Following the success of "Spectres," Jet Black Iris is now in development on its first feature film.

Founder and CEO of Toronto-based illustration, creative and graphic design firm Sphynx Ink Inc. And Cat Dad to iconic feline cartoon duo WINKLES & FLAM.

Writer, Producer and Director of the landmark COVID-19 documentary THE CURVE. Released in the run-up to the U.S. election, the movie is a devastating, emotional and insightful investigative thriller, examining the roots of the U.S. government’s failure to control and contain the COVID-19 pandemic, spanning the first 90 days of the American outbreak.

Canadian correspondent for the London-based, leading international trade publication covering the TV, digital and entertainment industries.Based in Toronto, Adam reported on the Canadian TV, film, entertainment and digital industries for C21, providing in-depth analysis of the factual, drama, entertainment and children’s TV trends emerging from the country.

Developed, launched, hosted and edited a weekly podcast focusing on the business of the Canadian entertainment industry. As first the Launch Editor, and then the Editor, of CONTENT CANADA, brokered a partnership with Eggplant Studio & Sound in Toronto, and researched and arranged each weekly podcast, securing guests and conducting the interviews. In addition, worked with CEO Ferne Cohen to support programming and partnerships for the annual CONTENT CANADA conference, hosted at the Four Seasons in Toronto.Across the course of 15 months and 27 podcast episodes, hosted highly acclaimed roundtables and interviews discussing topics including screenwriting, TV formats, film festivals, documentary making and comedy production, with executives from organizations such as CNN, Netflix, the Canadian Academy, TIFF, eOne, Hot Docs and many others.

Worked across all areas of the Realscreen brand, including the market-leading bi-monthly trade magazine; the realscreen.com website; and the brand’s three acclaimed international events, the Realscreen Summit, Realscreen West and Realscreen London.Adam oversaw a team of news writers and regularly attended and covered most of the major international documentary film and TV industry festivals and markets, including Sundance, South By Southwest, MIPCOM, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Television Festival; while frequently chairing panel sessions and Q&As with filmmakers and execs, at events such as Hot Docs, IDFA, the Realscreen Summit and Sheffield Doc/Fest.As a writer, he broke news stories that were followed up across the world, in publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Globe and Mail, and the Los Angeles Times.

Worked across all areas of the Realscreen brand, including the market-leading bi-monthly trade magazine; the realscreen.com website; and the brand’s three acclaimed international events, the Realscreen Summit, Realscreen West and Realscreen London.Adam oversaw a team of news writers and regularly attended and covered most of the major international documentary film and TV industry festivals and markets, including Sundance, South By Southwest, MIPCOM, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Edinburgh International Television Festival; while frequently chairing panel sessions and Q&As with filmmakers and execs, at events such as Hot Docs, IDFA, the Realscreen Summit and Sheffield Doc/Fest.As a writer, he broke news stories that were followed up across the world, in publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Globe and Mail, and the Los Angeles Times.

Based in London, Adam wrote and reported on the international TV industry, specializing in writing about non-fiction and digital media.Joining in 2008 as Senior Reporter, he covered all aspects of the television business, including drama, documentary, comedy, children’s programming, online and digital media, and formats. Shortly after joining, he was promoted to Acting Factual Editor, and in 2009 was named Factual Editor. The role saw him managing coverage of the non-fiction sector for C21 and overseeing the weekly Factual Week newsletter. In addition to writing and editing, he also conducted and helped develop video interviews for C21TV, which included interviewing numerous top level execs, actors and showrunners, and front of camera work presenting a special report on factual programming. In his role as a reporter, he broke some of the biggest stories in the international television and film industry, including the news that Robert Redford was planning a London version of the Sundance Film Festival (Sundance London); that All3Media was acquiring production company Optomen in a £40 million deal; that the BBC was secretly paying £10 million a year in retransmission fees to Sky; and that Sky’s James Murdoch and the BBC’s Robert Peston had become embroiled in a heated, behind-the-scenes row in Edinburgh. As part of the job, he covered festivals and conferences across the world, including NATPE, the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, IDFA, MIPCOM, FutureMedia and Hot Docs.

Adam reported on the international music industry, specializing in covering the digital music sector and the live music sector, for print and online. He wrote extensively on DRM and changes to the online retail landscape; and on government legislation relating to secondary ticketing. As Online Editor, he ran musicweek.com for 11 months, overseeing a number of changes and improvements to the site. He also reviewed CDs and concerts on a regular basis, and interviewed artists, including Tori Amos, Annie Lennox, Geri Halliwell, James Blunt, Bloc Party and Natasha Bedingfield.

The role saw Adam working for a year on a competitive internship across four CMPi titles: Travel Trade Gazette, The Publican, Music Week and Property Week.The internship was a competitive, paid position, involving a three-month stint on each title. During each placement, he carried a Reporter job title.At Travel Trade Gazette, he landed an exclusive front page story about a multimillion-Euro expansion at PortAventura in Catalonia, during his first week with the publication. At The Publican, Adam scored a front page exclusive about a major political row between Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs. At Property Week, he worked on the features desk, writing a number of investigative pieces, including the paper's first major analysis of the Belgrade property market.And at Music Week, his work on the title led to the publication hiring him as a full-time reporter.