Adam Saewitz is a filmmaker and video journalist based in New York City. He has contributed as a video editor at NBC News, Yahoo News, and The New York Times, where his work with NYT Opinion Video was twice nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion.
His past documentary feature credits include Treasure: From Tragedy to Trans Justice, Mapping a Detroit Story (cinematographer), which premiered in 2018 at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and A Girl Named C (co-editor), which premiered in 2018 at the Austin Film Festival.
He co-created, produced, directed, and edited the first three seasons of Brothers Green, a YouTube cooking series that later sold to MTV International and has been distributed in over 90 countries. The New Essentials of French Cooking, which he edited for NYT Cooking, won a James Beard Award for Innovative Storytelling in 2018. Adam studied filmmaking at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.