Trish Adlesic

 ( Living People ) 

Patricia "Trish" Adlesic is an American documentary film director and producer. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards.

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Early life Adlesic was born in Pittsburgh, the youngest of six children of Mary and Joseph Adlesic; her mother was a nurse and her father worked in education. She is of Irish and Slovenian descent. She graduated from Shaler Area High School and attended Hunter College, majoring in communications and psychology with a minor in music theory.

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Career

She worked as a location manager on , where she met actress Mariska Hargitay. When Hargitay wanted to make a documentary about the American rape kit backlog, she asked Adlesic to co-direct. The documentary, titled I Am Evidence, was released in 2017. The following year, Adlesic had been visiting her father in Pittsburgh when the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting occurred. After the shooting, she moved back to Pittsburgh and spent the next three years directing and co-producing . In 2025, she collaborated once again with Mariska Hargitay, producing Hargitay's feature directorial debut film My Mom Jayne, which premiered at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

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Filmography

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As director and producer

2010	Gasland
2013	Gasland Part II
2017	I Am Evidence
2022
	Pay or Die
2023	The ABCs of Book Banning			Short film
2025	My Mom Jayne

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Other credits

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Film

1993	Household Saints	Post-production supervisor
1995	The Basketball Diaries	Assistant location manager
1996	Night Falls on Manhattan	Assistant location manager
1997	Gold in the Streets	Location manager
	As Good as It Gets	Assistant location manager
1998	Black Dog	Location manager
	My Husband's Secret Life	Location manager
	Meet Joe Black	Assistant location manager
1999	The Insider	Location manager
2000	Finding Forrester	Location manager
	Looking for an Echo	Production supervisor
2002	In America	Production supervisor
2005	Get Rich or Die Tryin'	Production supervisor
2007	Dinosaurs Alive!	Unit production manager

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Television

1990–1993	Law & Order	Location coordinator
1994–1995	The Cosby Mysteries	Location manager
1999–2014		Location manager

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Awards and nominations

2024	Best Documentary Short Film	The ABCs of Book Banning
Local Heroes Competition
2019	Best Documentary	I Am Evidence
	Outstanding Investigative Documentary

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External links

Categories: Living People, American Documentary Film Producers, American People Of Irish Descent, American People Of Slovenian Descent, American Women Documentary Filmmakers, American Women Film Directors, American Women Film Producers, Hunter College Alumni, Mass Media People From Pittsburgh, Year Of Birth Missing

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