Adam Ripp

Adam Ripp Wiki

Occupation: Producer, Director, Writer

Adam Ripp Biography

In 1992, Adam Ripp produced his first feature film Public Access which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. That same year he developed the script Writing Home which was invited to the 1994 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and began writing Beat Cop, a character driven story about an idealistic young man who joins the LAPD and discovers his true heart of darkness. In order to capture the true essence of this world, Ripp decided to join the LAPD and become a cop. He went on to graduate the Police Academy in January of 1995 at the top of his class. Crime Scene Pictures is packaging Beat Cop with Ripp attached to direct.Ripp used personal experiences to help him write, produce and direct the feature film Gang Tapes, a coming of age story about a young boy chronicling his descent into gang life with a stolen video camera, which was financed and distributed by Lionsgate and released in 2002. Ripp won multiple awards including Best Director at the DVD Premiere Awards and the Melvin Van Peebles award at the San Francisco Black Film Festival. In addition, Gang Tapes won Best Ensemble Cast at the New York Underground Film Festival.In 2004, Ripp created Hollywood Vice for Fox Television which he wrote, executive produced and directed. He also developed SWAT for TNT, which tells the true story about the creation of the very first SWAT team. That same year Ripp consulted as a Police Technical Advisor on the Wim Wenders film, Land of Plenty.In 2005, Ripp wrote the feature film Scavenger for Arnold Rifkin and Beacon Pictures and in 2006 created the scripted television series Darius for MTV. He also developed and executive produced the animated movie review series The Cowboy Critic for CinemaNow.com and directed an episode of the scripted television series Lost Tapes for Animal Planet.During 2007 and 2008, Ripp produced a number of reality television series including: Inside American Jail for TruTV, Busted for MTV, Speeders for TruTV, Jail for MyNetTV and Speeders Fight Back for TruTV.Adam Ripp founded Crime Scene Pictures in May 2010. The company is in production on Gambit, a comedy written by Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen starring Academy Award winner Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz. Crime Scene Pictures recently announced their second feature, an action thriller titled Everly, which will be directed by Joe Lynch. Backed by private equity from ArtPhyl Entertainment, Crime Scene Pictures finances and produces 2-3 features a year, in addition to a television division that is predominantly focused on reality programming. Ripp is the owner, CEO/President of Crime Scene Pictures.Ripp is a member of the Writers Guild of America.

Follow @real_letmewatch