Adrienne Collatos is a documentary producer and director driven by the belief that film holds the power to teach empathy.
Adrienne has contributed to the core production team of feature documentaries that have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festival. Including, among others, Liz Garbus’s LOVE, MARILYN, (HBO), the Emmy Award winning, Peabody Award winning, Grammy- and Oscar-nominated film, WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? (Netflix), A GOOD JOB: STORIES OF THE FDNY (HBO) and THE LAST LAUGH (ITVS).
As a Producer Adrienne has developed a unique expertise as a researcher and archivist. In 2016 she co-produced and archival produced NOTHING LEFT UNSAID: GLORIA VANDERBILT AND ANDERSON COOPER (HBO), executive produced by Anderson Cooper. Most recently she co-produced and archival produced the two-part WHO KILLED GARRETT PHILLIPS? (HBO), which required analyzing thousands of police documents, handwritten notes, and hours of surveillance video.
Adrienne has written and produced short digital documentaries for Al Gore's THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT, Condé Nast’s GLAMOUR MAGAZINE’S WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARDS, and Planned Parenthood’s website UNSTOPPABLE.
In 2018 Adrienne joined Tribeca Studios, an arm of the Tribeca Film Festival, where she supervised production on micro, short and feature documentaries with brand support. She helped to select and supervise the inaugural year of The Queen Collective and served as Consulting Producer on THE REMIX: HIP HOP X FASHION (Netflix).
In 2019 Adrienne directed her first film, ANAS V. THE GIANT. The short documentary follows the court case of Anas Modamani, a Syrian refugee who brought Facebook to court in Germany for refusing to moderate fake news about him – the first named individual to do so at the time. The film had its world premiere at SXSW 2019.
In 2015 Adrienne was selected as one of the inaugural six Impact Partners' Emerging Producer Fellows. She graduated from Harvard with a history thesis on the emergence of the video industry in Ghana. She mentors with Free Arts, NYC, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their pitbull, Leeloo.
adrienne@gunshyproductions.com *** Brooklyn, NY 11211