Adele Free Pham
Directing
Adele Free Pham is an activist and filmmaker, with experience in all aspects of documentary production. Her feature documentary NAILED IT, about the genesis and culture of the Vietnamese nail industry, premiered on PBS in May 2019 and is the highest streamed film of the America Reframed series.
Her next feature STATE OF OREGON documents the 2016 murder of Larnell Bruce Jr. by a white supremacist in Gresham, Oregon as a touchstone to the state’s founding as a separatist white homeland a century and a half earlier. A short film by the same name was released by Field Of Vision in 2017 and has been viewed over 187k times.
Known for
Behind the camera4
- 2026The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti Director, Editor, Director of Photography
- 2017Nailed It Director, Cinematography
- 2017State of Oregon Director
- 2010Zenith Still Photographer