Adam Marshall Present

Emerging director Adam Marshall Present focuses on the connective bonds between humanity and the natural world, through unconventional storytelling. Present grew up in New Jersey and attended film school at Northwestern University. He has been a producer's assistant on NBC's Chicago Fire, P.D., and Med television shows, and has worked with the Independent Film Alliance in Chicago to develop community-building programming for local university film students and recent graduates. He is a post-production assistant at nonfiction studio Words + Pictures in New York City. The documentary American Dendrite is his feature directorial debut.