Adele Free Pham

Adele Free Pham

Director

Biography

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.

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Adele Free Pham 1

Representative Works

Zenith
Zenith
5.2
/ English
Nailed It
Nailed It
6.0
/ English
State of Oregon
State of Oregon
No Rating Yet
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Zenith
2010Nominee

Career Highlight

Zenith

Nailed It
2017Nominee

Best Director

Nailed It

The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti
2026Nominee

Best Director

The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti

Career Highlights

State of Oregon
2017Highlight

Best Director

State of Oregon

Video

Trailer
The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti