Adam Torel

Adam Torel is one of the Westerners who have made a significant difference in how non Asians have been able to access film works from the East and more recently in how Asians themselves have been able to get the resources to produce those works.He was born November 8th of 1982 and became director of his new distribution company, Third Window Films in London, at age 25 in 2007.Third Window has taken up the slack left by and changed the image somewhat of the previous films circulated by Asia Extreme and Tartan Video.Torel's company has released over 1oo movies from Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea and beginning in 2012 he started helping to produce some of these films by cutting edge auteurs such as Sion Sono.Torel has also assisted with the programming of contemporary Asian Cinema at various prestigious film festivals around the world.